If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.
Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked.
People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.
There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.