I wonder what Dr Daniel Kalla is thinking right now as the concerns about Swine ‘Flu grow and grow. It would appear many people turned on the Internet this morning and began researching the symptoms of this ailment. Kalla works as an emergency room physician in a Vancouver hospital, but is also the author of Pandemic - a medical thriller published in 2005. He wrote Pandemic after the SARS experience in 2003 and the thriller picked up some decent reviews at the time.
Pandemic concerns a bird virus that spreads from chickens to mankind. His hero is Dr. Noah Haldane, of the World Health Organization, who tackles the problem and uses lessons learnt from the great influenza pandemic of 1919 that killed more than 20 million people in less than four months.
