However, a few months after the exhibition he died from Spanish influenza at age 28.
"Western European countries are also reporting severe cases associated with H1N1," said Dr Caroline Brown, programme manager for influenza at the WHO in Europe.
He is also in charge of pandemic influenza at European Vaccine Manufacturers, the vaccine-industry's trade association.
One predicts influenza at his own peril, but it is likely that H1N1 will continue to cause sporadic cases.
In 1976, after a small outbreak of swine influenza at Fort Dix in New Jersey, public-health officials persuaded President Gerald R. Ford and Congress to mount a nationwide immunization campaign that came in for widespread criticism.
"It's a very strange thing for us to see that amount of influenza at this time of year," said Dr. Daniel B. Jernigan, deputy director of the agency's flu division.
On Tuesday, Dr. Shanley spoke about avian influenza at the Bristol Senior Center to an audience that included members of the emergency response team for Bristol, Burlington and Harwinton, to which he belongs.
Hong Kong officials also raised the territory's bird flu alert to "serious," increasing monitoring for influenza at hospitals and closed the market where the carcass was discovered until Jan . 12
He was a director of Presbyterian Hospital and the Manhattan Ear and Eye Hospital in New York and died of influenza at 37, leaving a fortune estimated at $50 million to his wife and to his children, Polly, Katherine and George III.
The real fear is that if a person becomes infected with avian influenza and human influenza at the same time, the two viruses could swap genetic material in a process known as recombination, producing a lethal virus that could pass as quickly from person to person around the world as other human flu viruses do.
