The country's first swine flu vaccine is now being tested in Leicester after its production was frantically developed by scientists. The tests will be carried out at Leicester Royal Infirmary on 175 young adults – mainly hospital workers – to test its effectiveness.

The plan is then for the vaccine to be rolled out to the whole country with "priority" cases first – people with health problems that put them in more danger, pregnant women, children under five and then those under-50.

This latest development will re-ignite the whole question of whether this is all a massive over-reaction to a mild illness.

Every death is, of course, tragic, but the numbers have been relatively few with swine flu and nearly all have been put down to patients having "under lying health problems."

Swine flu is a mild virus and, in some cases, the sufferers are barely aware they have suffered anything more than a bad cold.

However, we have been bombarded in the media with stories and the Government has set up a national helpline and website and sent out pamphlets to every household in Britain.

So let's put the question again: "Isn't this an awful lot of fuss about relatively nothing?"

To be fair to the Government, they are damned if they do, damned if they don't. It is easy to accuse them of over-reaction, but if they did nothing we would all attack them for being ill-prepared and complacent.

The concern is that swine flu is a "new" virus and seems to spread rapidly. Even in its present form, it has the potential to cause widespread disruption and affect groups of people very quickly.

Also, there is the danger that it will mutate into a much more dangerous virus and then, as a country, we would be horribly exposed to a serious illness.

For once, it is difficult to argue with the Government's course of action.