I have for some time wondered if we are going to see a great conflict ahead as humans are going to feel they are faced with the choice of killing huge numbers of wild birds (which would seriously skew the ecological balance and therefore harm humans), or accept that we have a world-wide virus that might mutate and kill millions of humans. The virus has not mutated, and may not mutate, but humans could harm themselves by their reactions. The number of deaths world-wide is insignificant compared to death from other diseases, so the fear all stems on whether this virus will mutate. Is this a media-born fear?