Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Schools have closed down, holiday-makers are being scanned, many have been isolated and quarantined, medicines are flying off the shelves and hospitals are overflowing with both genuine and paranoid patients.
Is a war underway, you ask?
No. It's flu.
Anyone seeking a quick diagnosis and treatment faces a hurdle as hospitals in Bahrain have witnessed a massive influx of patients with trivial symptoms, apprehensive of being identified with swine flu.
Please remember that there are people who have actually contracted the virus and are in need of medical attention and by flooding clinics with insignificant problems you deny them proper assistance.
Over its course, should the virus adapt and mutate, it could brew up into something far worse and then a 'war' would indeed be underway.
