What seems to go unapreciated by many is the fact that ACTION against these recent diseases

stopped the spread and prevented them going more widespread into pandemics, and saved lives.

100 years ago they would have run much more freely and wildly, and one glaring example is 1918.

Which nightclub?

Also in Patong night clubs as well Hollywood workers have tested positive it's been kept very hush hush!!!

Hole in the ozone layer, SARS, Mad Cow Disease, Bird Flu, Global Warming, Swine Flu....have I missed anything?

Finacial crisis

Call me skeptical, but this will blow over within 12 months and then there will be another flu/virus scare. Is it possible to catch the flu from a fish? Cod flu?

The declaration of pandemic level 6 by the WHO is a major step. Countries can now close their borders without notice. No one in and no one out!

Some here think this is a joke or a media event, think again. You may be stuck at that beer bar forever

Methinks that many of the posters on this site are already stuck at that beer bar forever - H1N1 notwithstanding!