Flu Pandemic Could Kill 2 Million Americans

The danger is we become complacent about the potential for a pandemic:

The number of people that could die in a flu pandemic that matches the 1918-20 outbreak will be "very scary" and far higher than the 62 million deaths forecast by a recent study, an adviser to the White House said on Monday.

We should not panic but we must be vigilant:

[...]a pandemic -- which the World Health Organization and other experts say is inevitable and overdue through some disease[...]

Here's the danger:

Health experts worry that the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus which began in Asia and spread widely in 2006 to more than 50 countries could mutate to jump between humans, sparking a human flu pandemic.