it might be called bird flu, but most of the birds getting it are chickens. i'm pretty sure that quarantine can manage to keep live and dead chickens from being illegally imported into australia (please correct me if i'm wrong).
as for the incubation period, i guess we'd do the same thing as...
in year 11 (just finished) i had 6 free periods a fortnight, but now i will have 22 a fortnight cause i am finishing IPT (accellerating) and dropping a subject as well. year 12 is gunna be a mad bludge!
download - sorry, buy - some relaxing music or rainforest sounds or something and listen to them through an ipod/discman/wateva as your going to sleep. most portable audio players turn off automatically after they've finished playing so you shouldnt need to worry about battery.