Except the FOI request was from other scientist in the same field. It is one thing to be annoyed by an FOI request by someone outside the field but this was not the case. It is quite disturbing when you have scientist "20+ years" in the filed refusing to share data because???

No, as a scientist, something is very wrong with the way these professors acted and it should not be simply overlooked as anger and annoyance. The emails and the way they have acted all suggest they wanted to hide something.

Not Even close:

http://flutracker.rhizalabs.com/

United States already has over 17,000 confirmed cases of novel H1N1.

No your assertion is incorrect. I will not bother responding as an adequate answer has already been given:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1198631&cid=27575011

by the way do you drink much Kool-Aid? Just wondering.