Declared: Public health emergency

Headlines from Drudge Report.

JANET: EVENTS DO NOT WARRANT TESTING OF PLANE PASSENGERS FROM MEXICO...
ORDERS RELEASE: 25% OF TAMIFLU/RELENZA STOCKPILES...
'NO EVIDENCE' OF BIO-TERROR...
CDC RECOMMENDS PLANNING FOR SCHOOL CLOSURES...
Positive: NYC students...
WHO: Swine flu could mutate to 'more dangerous' strain...
Flu fears prompt quarantine plans...
Mexico City residents staying at home...
CLOSE TO 1,200 SUSPECTED CASES...
Russia Suspends Imports of Meat From Mexico, Some U.S. States...
New swine flu likely widespread...
Asia on alert...
10 New Zealand students in scare...
Mideast First: Israeli man hospitalized on suspicions...
4 SWINE FLU CASES CONFIRMED IN CANADA...
Spain announces 3 suspected cases...

DECLARED: PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

All of this is very interesting but the number of cases in ratio to the number of people living in certain cities, countries, states, etc (that I've been reading about in assorted places) sounds like this is not even an epidemic let alone a pandemic. Are they just spreading the word so that when the disease they've engineered gets full blown they can say, "See, we told you a lot of people were going to die."?