This guy, who helped beat small pox, was senior technical advisor for the movie:

[link to www.wired.com (secure)]

So that explains some of it. (Just read through the political colored comments.) I do believe we need some sort of a-political Einsteinisch thinker to lead this global crisis and not governments as is, or the WHO.

But I guess that will never happen. Economic interests are way to high for that, higher than the value of lives. Sad really.