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Experts fear super epidemic of flu, shortage of medicines to fight it.
Byline: Seth Borenstein
WASHINGTON _ A severe and early outbreak of flu is striking now in Texas, Colorado, Scotland and England, and top flu experts are warning that the world has too few anti-flu medicines on hand if a global super outbreak of influenza, called a pandemic, hits in the future.
Senior influenza researchers are urging world health authorities to start using genetic modification to make vaccines _ a still untested process _ and begin stockpiling anti-flu medicines.
"The world will be in deep trouble if the impending influenza pandemic strikes this week, this month, or even this year," influenza researchers Dr. Richard Webby and Dr. Robert Webster of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis write in Friday's issue of the journal Science.
The worst isn't here _ yet.
"What we're experiencing now is a bad flu season, not a pandemic," said Dr.…
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