the ballmer bit took the cake :)

There is no need for them to invent a new pandemic that will come to nothing. Bird flue and Swine have used their quota for FUD smoke screens for the next while. They will need to come up with something else to help cover/burry the important stuff in the back pages so people won't notice what is actually going on.

"And Thomas Baker at Pennsylvania State University will give malaria-carrying mosquitoes a cold so they can't smell people."
What could possibly go wrong?
Coming soon to a pandemic near you:
Mosquito flu!