Perhaps I'm taking a little license to characterize cybercrime as a pandemic, but it is clearly global, easily transmitted and acquired, and it doesn't look like anyone knows how to stop it right now. This article from New Scientist made me clutch my wallet a little tighter.
Shifting to illness of the viral kind, the NYT reports that the World Health Organization is bowing to pressure from certain countries (I can't tell you their names, but their initials are U.S.A. and E.U.) and will rewrite its pandemic rules to de-certify our crazy Swine Flu as a pandemic.
The always-excellent Debora McKenzie summarizes the mismatch between the current pandemic rules and the existing situation with the Swine Flu, and sheds light on why W.H.O. is feeling the heat. As MacKenzie points out, the 1918 Pandemic, as most do most flu pandemics, began with a milder initial wave - much like the current Swine Flu - before going all aggro and killing tens of millions of people.
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