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With a hat-tip to my friend and blogging veteran Michael Coston of Avian Flu Diary, who found this article and placed it on his excellent Blogsite.  The good news within the bad news is that we are getting anything remotely resembling good, defensible data from the Indonesian authorities, whose improvement in locating, diagnosing and ultimately dispensing of H5N1 in poultry is visible to all.

The bad news is that the disease is so endemic there.  Almost every province has H5N1 in poultry or humans or both.  Recent revelations from Indonesian authorities regarding asymptomatic (that's "no symptoms" to you and me), yet positive H5N1-infected poultry, and the disclosure that upwards of 20% of all wild cats in the island archipelago have H5N1 antibodies shows why this country is such a potential time bomb for a pandemic..

http://www.antara.co.id/en/arc/2007/6/20/tens-of-thousands-of-poultry-die-of-ai-in-e-kalimantan/

While you're at it, visit Michael "FLA_MEDIC" Coston's participation on the HHS Pandemic Flu leadership Blog at http://blog.pandemicflu.gov/?page_id=11 .