There are dozens of countries in the developing world where the figures are more than misleading, because they don't have the capacity to carry out testing in any accurate way. But the figures for Western and Northern Europe and North America should be much more reliable. You would hope so, anyway.

He has zero medical qualifications.

In Israel in 1995 he was found guilty on three counts of securities fraud along with two other men, Nissim Avioz and Dov Landau. He was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment and fined 50,000 shekels (about $14,000), while the company was fined 100,000 shekels.

In 1996, as a condition of parole, he agreed to a mental health evaluation, which noted various personality disorders.

According to Vaknin, "I was borderline schizoid, but the most dominant was NPD," and on this occasion he accepted the diagnosis, because, he wrote, "it was a relief to know what I had."

Yes, just the chap to provide “the truth”.

He sounds ok to me from his wikipedia, in his field of expertise. Maybe not exactly highly qualified to overrule a virologist though.