The stories are very scary and very unsettling.

To my knowledge, the flesh-eating kinds of infections are not on the increase. People want to find a connection, but often, even when you look there's no connection.

Often, things happen in clusters that have no explanation except a chance occurrence. People like to blame it on radio waves or something. It's a natural human tendency to want to connect the dots, but most of the time there are not connections.

For every hospitalization, it's certainly expected that there's a bunch of people out there who've gotten influenza, but exactly what that multiplier is, I don't think anyone knows.

You don't want to let bacteria set up shop and invade.

There are a lot of scary stories out there about the next pandemic, but we have to make difficult decisions without a lot of information. The real answer is we don't know until the next pandemic virus appears.