And yet WHO officials continue to defend their actions. In a January 14 conference call with reporters, Keiji Fukuda, the special adviser to the WHO’s director general for pandemic flu, argued that the organization did not overplay the dangers but “prepared for the worst and hoped for the best.”
世卫组织的所作所为受到了广泛的批评：如欧洲理事会议会大会就在1月12日提出计划在本月下旬就“威胁健康的虚假流行病”展开讨论。但世卫组织的官员们却继续维护自己的举措。在1月14日举行的媒体电话会议上，世卫组织总干事流感事务的特别顾问福田敬二就辩解说该组织并未夸大危险因素，而只是“在怀着最美好希望的同时做好最坏的准备。”