The way swine flu was thought to affect the masses never actually happened, as a result after spending billions of dollars on its vaccination, 65 million shots are still unused.

The H1N1 virus was declared a pandemic in June of 2009, following this many people went to get vaccinated against the virus but due to short supply of the vaccines, the government said only those at a high risk would get the vaccines. Now when the excess stock remains unused, about 40 per cent stock is expected to be destroyed.

Paul Myers, assistant director of the Alachua County Health Department said, "The epidemic we prepared for was not the epidemic we got."

The way vaccines were produced was not actually needed. Huge profits were churned out for a Swiss pharmaceutical company after the fear of a global pandemic was instilled in a million minds. Fortunately, the swine flu or often called the H1N1 virus did not turn out to be as bad as predicted.

Following the Spanish flu that had a high mortality rate, the officials with the World Health Organization and U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designed a response plan which was later realized was not needed.

But after all this, both Myers and Barkley stated that the threat of H1N1 influenza is still with us.