Is Bird Flue a Human Pandemic?

A new strain of bird flue has been going around for about ten years. To become a human pandemic, the disease needs to be able to spread from human to human. Some leading flue experts are saying that it will never adapt to humans and there is no chance of its becoming a human disease. Other experts aren't so sure. With this information, how worried would you be about this disease becoming a pandemic? Would you spend millions of pounds monitoring it, or would you ignore it? If you were in charge of scientific funding in this circumstance, what would you do?