A Miracle Of Epidemiology And IT

In the National Post today - "The very fact that doctors and health regulators are already talking in an educated way about swine flu is itself a miracle of modern epidemiology and information technology. As we write this, on April 29, a mere 27 days have passed since the first confirmed patient -- five-year-old Edgar Enrique Hernandez of La Gloria, Mexico -- got sick on April 2." Many in the media are breathlessly chasing the swine flu story but they are well behind the truly breathtaking pace set by the epidemiologists in responding to the outbreak.