Here's just a teeny-tiny reality check - twenty cases of swine flu do not an "epidemic" make. There's no way to spin that to mean anything else, I'm afraid. 100 cases would not be an epidemic, not that any but the twenty have been confirmed. I know what the government has said, but I should think the word "epidemic" is the media's. I cut no slack to the reprehensible media, I'm afraid. They should all be drawn and quartered and run out of town on a rail.