As if emergency rooms weren’t busy enough, here comes bird flu:
It’s unclear if a bird flu virus setting off alarm bells around the world will ever make its way to the United States and Alabama.
But if it does, hospitals throughout Jefferson and Shelby counties will not have enough room in their ERs or on patient floors to handle the hordes of infected patients who are likely to show up, said Dr. Thomas Terndrup of the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
