I don't believe this went global fast. I think the USA has intentionally under reported this global pandemic. I noticed as of an hour ago,the Swine Flu story is scheduled to dominate today's news cycle starting at 11 30 am C on Fox. A flurry of news conferences are scheduled today. This urgency about the swine flu in the news doesn't make sense to me when we all knew a few days ago about the significance of this story.
maybe they are trying to put the ‘torture’ scandels lower on the radar since Pelosi is involved.
maybe they are trying to start the ‘scare’ and hoping the ‘tea party’ attendance levels will go down for the planned parties on July 4th, etc.