Fukuda, the WHO's assistant director-general for health security and the environment
Fukuda just came out with this comment. Cidrap a good site for info.
''Fukuda cautioned that even if swine flu activity subsides sometime soon, it will be at least several months before experts can conclude that a pandemic won't happen. "It's very hard to know when something like this disappears. I don't think we'll be able to conclude that in the next few weeks."
He also warned not to forget how the great pandemic of 1918-19 unfolded. "It also started out as a relatively mild spread of illness that really wasn't much noted in most places, but then it became a very severe pandemic in the fall," he said. ''