Is the threat over? Have we beaten swine flu?

So it's fair to say the media who-har has flared down somewhat of late, and slowly we're hearing less about new cases of the h1n1 virus that is emerging. Sir Liam Donaldson proclaimed at the end of last week, that the UK is close to beating the pandemic. Seeing as he was the one that over inflated the figures as to the number of cases and deaths the UK would experience by August: 100,000 cases a week and a possible death toll of 65,000 - you can forgive the British public and others from being cynical about his recent announcement.

Although, the number of cases and death tolls may be dying down in the UK, it's certainly not dying down in other parts of the World and particularly the poorer ones who don't have the luxury of Britain's health infrastructure in place. There are many countries in South East Asia, Africa and South America that are still struggling to combat the pandemic. Until all these countries have accessibility to a vaccine that works against H1N1, how can it be possible safe to say that the worst is over? Let's just hope that countries still doing they're best to fight off the swine flu don't take Sir Liam's blaze e attitude, and complacency.