Back to swine flu though, yes, people are going to drag their feet when it comes to some medical advances (big pharma doesn’t want the illnesses to go away, it is their moneymaker etc)… But it isn’t totally about that, there are people who actually care about people not getting sick… hmm, like all those people that worked to eradicate smallpox. But see, there is a difference between something like smallpox, and swine flu. Smallpox is a human only virus, if every human is cured, it is possible to “get rid of it”. Swine flu, quite obviously from the name, can live in other animals (a zoonotic pathogen). It is far more difficult to find every animal (vector) that could possibly harbor the virus and quarantine it, wild animals could have it and spread it along. Either way, swine flu is more of a transfer of various strains of influenza, from various different animals, and not something concocted by a person.

You are right about the population control thing. Not of “the system” as you say, but of mother earth. As humans continue to encroach on wild areas, and disturb animals from their natural habitats that can possibly harbor these viruses, they get spread to us.