re: #79 solomonpanting

That story is being buried under the swine flu PANDEMIC.

A pandemic is a disease that spreads across a wide area in an unusual pattern. With a flu, any variety that appears out of season effectively becomes pandemic, thanks to rapid transportation and incubation times. The word pandemic for flu doesn’t mean much more than non-seasonal. Declaring it pandemic was entirely accurate. The hysteria came because people didn’t actually know what pandemic means.