@peter Doesn't necessarily have to be H5N1, either. Whole bunch of contagious disease which might explain the 3 at once situation. It used to not be uncommon for contagious diseases to silently kill whole families. One of my grandmothers never knew one of her uncles because the whole family all died (probably within days of each other) in their home one winter. Only one survived and he went down to Texas and settled in Galveston just in time for the hurricane.