For example:

“As the two friends wandered through the snow on their way home, piglet grinned to himself thinking how lucky he was to have a best friend like Pooh. Pooh thought to himself 'if the pig sneezes he’s dead.'"

The pandemic paranoia has stoked the flames of a couple of diplomatic rows. The Spanish government was fuming after the German Health Minister suggested people should not attend the Spanish Grand Prix.

And Mexico is mad at China for holding Mexican tourists to the country under house arrest.

The fact is that flu of any kind is a dangerous disease that kills hundreds of thousands every year, and authorities are not in a rush to remove restrictions.

“Even though we might be seeing only mild cases now, we cannot say what will happen in the future,” warns the spokesman of the World Health Organization (WHO) Gregory Hartl.

The World Health Organization warns of a second round of flu outbreak. But many think the outcry was just the media crying wolf. The scare proved to be more newsworthy than the worn out financial crisis, so it is likely to stay in the headlines and blogs for a while.

There is another angle to this story. Russian health officials have criticized the World Health Organization for lobbying the interests of pharmaceutical companies.

The country's chief hygiene inspector says drugs other than those recommended by the WHO could also be effective in fighting swine flu.

“There are international and national patterns of treating flu, and they include several drugs,” stated Russia’s Chief medical officer of health Gennady Onischenko. “Instead, we see that the World Health Organization has turned into a marketing department of one company. Why is this virus resistant to all major anti-flu drugs, and only one drug is considered the most effective? Maybe the others are not one hundred percent effective, but they still can be used for treatment.”