Migrating geese in western Qinghai province have been discovered with the H5N1 avian flu virus. The fear is this virus mutating with a human virus and jumping unchecked into the human population. Over the weekend China ordered emergency nationwide measures to deal with a potential outbreak.

On Monday the World Health Organization adopted stronger measures to deal with flu pandemics. The new regulations will empower WHO to restrict world-wide travel and commerce to and from affected areas. They will also allow officials to demand more information from countries in case of an outbreak. The WHO can demand information from nations which have an outbreak.