WHO and Swine Flu

Re “Managing a Flu Threat With Seasoned Urgency” :
(by Henry I. Miller published on NY Times, May 16)

As the co-discoverer of one of the key enzymes of the influenza virus and as someone who has written extensively about H5N1 avian flu, I do not count myself among the “flu experts” who believe that the World Health Organization and Dr. Margaret Chan, its director general, “performed well” during the current outbreak of H1N1 swine flu. They were overly alarmist and precipitate: in particular, the decision to raise the pandemic flu threat to the penultimate Level 5, “Pandemic Imminent,” was unwarranted.

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