That suddenly this one is the end all be all may be valid, but we could be fooling ourselves because the health scientists have never looked this closely at one.

Consider, in the past death from pneumonia was chalked up to the flu or, to pneumonia. Now we are assigning pneumonia deaths to a cause. Clearly there is a cause and there is nothing wrong with the assignment. However, it is wrong to spin ourselves into hysteria if the total # of pneumonia deaths this year is normal. The identity of a cause does not warrant heightened fear. There have always been causes for pneumonia. We just didn't care enough in the past to identify all the causes.