because it's not just the flu you need to worry about:

http://www.sorm.state.tx.us/Media/SpotlightOnSafety/Pandemic/PandemicFlu.php

You gotta love a State agency with a sense of humor. Where else but Texas would the state risk management people tell you to stockpile guns and ammo?  Thanks to the goddess for the link.

P. S.  Not the U. Florida is too bad either. They even have instruction sheets and forms!