"In the meantime, for the forthcoming flu season, our priority remains to ensure a high uptake rate is achieved in the at risk groups including pregnant women, " he added.
Good screening programmes in the Bahamas have helped to slow the infection rate, and drug treatments there and in Barbados that help to prevent pregnant mothers passing the disease to their children have been copied elsewhere.
Their method is as stupid as calculating the pregnancy rate for the whole population without adjusting for the fact that men find it remarkably difficult to become pregnant.