<p>Man, first the drug wars and now this?</p>
<p>I don’t think there’s any reason to freak out…yet. It can be treated medically as of now, one of the reason that a lot of people died in Mexico is lack of medical care. BUT, like the 1918 flu, it kills mostly young adults through cytokine storms, which is kinda scary I think.</p>
<p>Gryffon, that is not valid because very few people die from the common cold. Swine flu has a much higher mortality rate.</p>
<p>I’m sure as of now, I bet the number of people who have died from the common cold exceeds the number who have died from swine flu. :P</p>
<p>Sure… but that’s just the common “cold”… </p>
<p>People don’t freak out about the common “flu” and there are up to 500,000 deaths worldwide, 36,000 of those in America. </p>
<p>The current swine flu is just a new recombinant of older swine flu strains… I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Be happy =)</p>
<p>OMG! who remembers the SARs epidemic.</p>
<p>Except the common flu does not normally kill you unless the flu is merely a complication.</p>
<p>omg sars… lol i remember missing school for half a year >:D
but yeah… scary stuff</p>
<p>Yes, but usually, if people die of common cold or normal flu, they’re elderly, infants, or people who already have weakened immune systems. Swine flu or 1918 Spanish Flu (which may have been a strain of swine flu) causes one’s immune system to overreact (“cytokine storm”), thus killing healthy young adults (like us).</p>
<p>Drug wars, swine flu, and a 6.0 earthquake in Mexico yesterday. Life must be good there.</p>