It is sort of telling Obama is driving around in golf carts after just visiting Mexico. If he is worried he is doing an Oscar-worthy performance of hiding it.
I find certain things about this story concerning. Particularly the virus having mixed and unnatural-seeming origins (avian-swine-human).
It is pretty weird. I would not worry until people in the West start dropping like flies despite modern medicine. I think if a big plague hit there would be no question about whether it was a plague or not.