It's killed less than forty people a year, and unless you have a thing for lung-raping chickens you're not going to be in danger.
It doesn't transmit well between people, it mutates much too rapidly for an effective vaccine to be developed, and it's not nearly as much of a threat as you think it is. Hell, I don't like Bush, and I don't think he should be sticking his nose in Iran's business either, but you and I both know that more Americans die at the hands of other fucking Americans for terrorism or the bird flu or Iran or the underpants gnomes to give us much competition.
That said, I missed it too - having some home problems, school work, and a bit of tinkering to do (got my D Activator in yesterday, so I wired it up series in the bridge, wired the Super Distortion in parallel, and put them out of phase with each other... amazing sounds all around, I get more clarity with distortion in B than most people would dream of in E with Led Zeppelin crunch) so I couldn't keep track of the time.
Jeff