While on the one hand ministry officials and infectious disease experts have actively lobbied for Cantastim, the vaccine produced by the Cantacuzino Institute, on the other hand the use of quick tests is not recommended, on grounds that they are neither reliable, nor internationally recognized as a means of diagnosis. Doctor Mihaela Lupse, medical director of the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Cluj, north-western Romania, an area where close to one thousand contamination cases have been identified so far, explains:
"There is no quick test able to detect the AH1N1 virus. The existing rapid tests miss many cases of contamination, so we don’t recommend them. Nobody does, actually: neither the Health Ministry, nor the World Health Organization, nor the American CDC.”

There are also voices which question not only the reliability of tests, but the very existence of the pandemic. The daily ROMANIA LIBERA writes that, “After the WHO came under increasing criticism for its management of the H1N1 flu, which it declared as pandemic under pressure from pharmaceutical companies, the Organization now announces plans to commission an assessment by independent experts.” And the daily adds that “MEPs have also requested an investigation to assess ‘the threat of false pandemics to citizens’ health’.

” Without waiting for the findings of these investigations, the daily JURNALUL NATIONAL headlines, “Fishy dealings around the new flu hysteria,” which, the authors claim, is “carefully controlled by vested interests in the pharmaceutical industry.” In the newspaper ADEVARUL, on the other hand, the blunt statistics on the 13 thousand deaths reported around the world are accompanied by a heartbreaking report about a young Romanian who lost both her mother and her fiancé to the new flu, in just several days.