Slashdot linked up news that a flat-out cure for everyone's latest scary disease, bird flu, may have been discovered. Discovered, it should be added, in what would seem to be the most unlikely of places: the gut of an Icelandic cod.

Of course, it remains to be seen whether or not this research is confirmed. The snake-oil-like additional claims to the efficacy of the enzyme penzin for other maladies makes me suspicious. Still, if it manages to take another bell away from the twirling Chicken Littles in their bellfries, I'll call it a good thing.