One thing is a certainty, according to Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organisation – a highly virulent killer stain of swine flu/bird flu will emerge eventually.

This has 100 per cent probability, based on the past, and whether it arrives this year, in the next decade or over the next 50 years, it will in due course come to pass.

But it has to be said that the drugs strategy is totally flawed and will not save hundreds of millions (maybe, in fact, more than a billion lives lost) from their eventual deaths worldwide. For the timing of the drug’s strategy is far too long from the creation of an effective vaccine to manufacture, distribution and inoculation – about nine to 18 months even in rich Western economies.

In this respect the Spanish Flu (a variant of swine flu) killed between 20 million and 100 million people in 1917/18 and did its lethal worst between weeks 16 and weeks 24.

If you do not believe me, just look at the present situation where it has already taken more than six months to isolate, create a vaccine, manufacture limited supplies for only 10 per cent of the total requirement, sparsely distribute and with limited inoculation of people.

Indeed, according to statistics and logistics, it will take a further 12 months before everyone has had the inoculation, if everything runs smoothly. Therefore, this second test-run of the swine virus that we are just starting to go through currently, should show that the drugs strategy will do very little to save us all and our loved ones when the real nightmare emerges – a pre-runner hopefully.

So if we are intelligent people and use our common sense, we should see that the only real way to defeat this killer virus is to address it at source and never let it happen in the first place.

This is the thinking of some of the most eminent virologists in the world, but the power of the mighty pharmaceutical companies, who cannot make tens of billions out of this field strategy, is stopping this happening.

Governments are brainwashed by their influence and therefore will not listen to the only definite "cure in town".

Time will tell, but it has to be said that time is possibly now something that is not on our side, as this alternative preventative strategy that will definitely stop the killer virus in its tracks and at source, will take five years to implement globally.

Therefore, we have to start today to change from a drugs-led strategy that will totally fail us all eventually, to a preventative strategy at source that will not let it happen in the first place. Common sense really, but something presently that governments do not have. The death count will be enormous.

Dr David Hill
World Innovation
Foundation Charity
Bern, Switzerland