Britain, Japan, China urge WHO to be more laid back on Swine Flu, CDC says complacency is a high risk right now

SHOOT: What better example of the human conundrum. Because of our lust for money, because of greed, we would rather not tell ourselves our health is under threat, even though it clearly is. We would rather err on the side of making more money than protecting our health. It speaks volumes about our attitude to the environment, and the climate. Greed Uber Alles.

clipped from news.yahoo.com WHO says transmission rates in countries outside the Americas is the key factor in whether the agency should raise its pandemic alert scale to the highest level. Right now it is at phase 5 — out of a possible 6 — meaning a global outbreak is "imminent." Dr. Richard Besser, acting director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the WHO meeting that the outbreak is "not winding down" in the United States and "widespread transmission" continues. He also said the epidemic also was not over in Mexico. Speaking a day after New York school assistant principal Mitchell Wiener died of swine flu, Besser said the world needed to maintain its vigilance against the virus. "What we need now most of all is information," Chan said. "We must guard against complacency."