The recent data show that severity, impact and case fatality ratio of H1N1 was not as perilous as feared. As a result, there is a controversy brewing in international community accusing WHO of being influenced by pharmaceutical industry in playing up H1N1 scare and recommending stockpiling of vaccines and drugs. while response strategy i.e., vaccine, tamiflu etc as an interventional tool to control and prevent H1N1 pandemic could be debatable, but the fact that H1N1 is a disease that warranted global pandemic alert should never be questioned.
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