GREEK doctors and flu scientists are saying what Â鶹´«Ã½ revealed two weeks ago: swine flu could be spreading round Europe undetected because people without known links to flu aren’t being tested (see “Europe should test more broadly for swine flu”).
Maybe countries worry that if they test, they’ll be forced to use precious antiviral medicines on a mild strain. Maybe they just want this virus to spread quietly, so people will become immune to its successors. Maybe a basic understanding of epidemiology is lacking, though that seems unlikely.
But we know one thing: the only item of faith…
