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Originally Posted by ReGGs
23 people have swine flu. More people will die from obesity related illnesses this week than will ever probably die from swine flu. Taking in mind that it doesn't turn into some 1918 flu type thing. Even then the regular ass flu kills 33 thousand people a year in the US. Until swine flu gets around that number I am gonna worry about more dangerous stuff like the traffic I will face on the way home from work.
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I'm not worried about it as of yet, but the concern for this part of the world is if it mutates and joins with the bird flu virus.
Swine Flu has an incredible human to human transfer rate, but low death rate. Bird Flu has a poor transfer rate but kills 60% of the people it infects. Should the two collide, Asian doctors say it could surpass the 1918 Spanish Flu that killed 20+ million people.
