My Way News - US, other nations stop counting pandemic flu cases
My Way News reports: "U.S. health officials have lost track of how many illnesses and deaths have been caused by the first global flu epidemic in 40 years. [...] Other nations have stopped relying on lab-confirmed cases, too, and health officials say the current monitoring system is adequate."

Comment: Perhaps someone in the medical community could offer a comment to explain what appears to be a rather irrational approach to disease fighting. Are they really saying that this is a serious global pandemic, but they are not able to reliably count how many people are infected, so they are not even going to try? Then how do they know it's serious? How can you define a pandemic based only on scope, not severity, if you can't accurately determine the scope of the disease? I'm frankly shocked at the implication of this report, namely, that reports of the scope of the disease are based on loose estimates. In the modern computerized and internet connected world, I have a hard time understanding why health care centers can't report exact data to the CDC or similar national centers in the case of other countries. How can there be any sense of urgency about immunization if the disease may not be as widespread as sensational media reports make it out to be? Medical science is not a tabloid institution (basing policy on hearsay, sensational rumor and self-reporting on flu hotlines), and it should not act like one.