Bird flu is in the house.

AP News via Yahoo News

It looks like a tight-lipped administration can't control independent sources like the Flu Wiki, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said on Wednesday.

The bird flu is an imminent threat to the U.S..

Go figure?

The lethal avian flu that is spreading rapidly around the world could soon infect wild birds and domesticated flocks in the United States, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said on Wednesday.

In testimony to a congressional panel on his agency's budget for combating a possible avian flu outbreak among humans, Leavitt told senators that no one knows when or if the virus will pose a threat to people. But, he said, "it's just a matter of time--it may be very soon" when wild birds and possibly poultry flocks contract the disease.

With the advent of "the internets," people will know when it's hit the shore before the wonderful government decides to tell people.

It's about time that a legislator with a brain says what we all were thinking anyway. We give U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt the "Mr. Obvious Award of Excellence" for finally publicly acknowledging the state-bound menace.

Who would have thunk it? A politician that can tell the truth.