[Hades]

I personally think the alarm is causing more harm than the illness itself.

This flu is less lethal than a regular flu. Every country must have its own reasons for ignoring it or shouting it out loudly.

To put some examples:
1-In Argentina where I was born and lived until 2008 it's on the front page of every newspaper, because every other subject (politics, economy, society, lifestyle, etc...) of the country is shameful.
2-In Poland, where I'm now until end of 2009, this issue has little to no attention at all, often having to browse deep into the Health section of the newspaper to find any mention about it.

And in none of these countries anybody died of H1N1 yet.