If it's because of the panic surrounding the swine flu, he recommends looking at the facts: In the United States,
seasonal flu kills tens of thousands more people every year than swine flu has so far in 2009.
Not exact matches
The 1917 virus had infection and mortality rates typical of
seasonal flu, but a single mutation in the proteins affecting how the virus binds to a host cell may have led to the deadly 1918 wave, which
killed more than 50 million people worldwide.
Remember, this is not quite like
seasonal flu, because it's
killing younger people, and it does have an impact on health care systems.