Swine Flu to Be Declared a Pandemic--But It's Not as Bad as It Might Sound

The World Health Organization is expected to officially classify the ongoing H1N1 swine flu outbreak as a pandemic in the next couple of days, but health officials are taking pains to stress that the "pandemic" label only indicates that the virus is spreading through communities in more than one region of the globe--it does not mean that the virus is killing everyone in its path. WHO official Keiji Fukuda explains: