Out of about 6 billion people world-wide, 103 have died of H5N1. That's 0.0000017%. As someone said very recently, "There is no pandemic among humans, but if I were a bird I'd be worried."

Nor do you need a poultry industry -- H5N1 is found in wild fowl worldwide and in all regions. The influenza virus has been endemic in wild fowl for many, many years -- it's NOT something new. What is new is the infection of domestic poultry farms.

Not H5N1 or any other strain of influenza virus has come about because of egg-based growth medium. What is grown therein is used to inject people, not birds, and the eggs CERTAINLY aren't allowed to hatch. For that matter, Saulk polio vaccine was grown in egg medium.