The answers are yes, no, and yes.
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been handling an avalanche of phone calls from the public and the media.
"It's been insane," said Dave Daigle, a spokesman for the CDC, which has been getting an average of 447,000 hits a day on its avian flu information Web page.
That's more than the CDC got from people wanting to know about...
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