where local people were protesting before the outbreak happened because of waste from it pouring into their water supply
yeh maybe a money spinner for Roche, but swine flu could kill millions,like it did in 1918.

is he provides his email with his cartoons. I've found him to be open to arguments and a very instructive artist.

I don't think these cartoons of his are wrong or misleading but I may email him privately about them. I think he has missed an opportunity. When I think of an impoverished Mexican town sprayed by poisoned pig shit from an american agrobusiness until a potential global plague is created, then I picture a more cutting cartoon. When I think of Mexicans dying because their government can't afford to pay for copyrighted medicine then I sort of wish I had Latuffs innate talent. When I see honeymooners getting sick on a plane home from a self-indulgent holiday, because airlines stopped filtering the air when smoking was banned, well, I have yet another cartoon that I feel summarises our age, our helpless, hapless, well-meaning era.