[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Thor

Ultimately the media is to blame, but you have to understand the perspective of the WHO and those who study communicable diseases. We are playing Russian roulette as a planet, we are just waiting on a modern Spanish flu that will devastate our planet.

Within the halls of WHO, virologists and infectious disease scientists world wide; is how do we communicate to the world the risks, of seasonal flu, to higher risk flu (h1n1) which has a higher risk of problems... Media tends to over sensationalize, but the science has to be honest to the public.

So yeah the H1N1 will be looked at as some failure even though we don't hear of its successes, it was not ideally handled.

The complexity of these viruses makes it something akin to those trying to warn us from eruptions, its not an exact science, so how do you tell the public what you fear might be coming, if not telling them what you think; based on the best evidence you have.

I think our culture of "there are two valid sides to every story" is also to blame. It's somehow wrong to say their ideas don't have any merit on a national/global scale