Swine Flu Mortality
In case you are panicking: you are more likely to die of Japanese Encephalitis or Dengue than the H1N1 flu.
Though I do have to say that I am very disappointed by the government's failure to get the vaccine out before the pandemic.
This flu is not your garden variety seasonal flu, guys... Here's some info from the CDC: "The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus continues to disproportionately attack the young, the CDC warned. Children and adults under age 25 have accounted for 53% of hospitalizations for laboratory-confirmed H1N1 and 23.6% of related deaths since Sept. 1, the agency reported at a press briefing.
Seniors, on the other hand, have accounted for just 7% of H1N1-confirmed hospitalizations and 11.6% of deaths from the virus based on data from 27 and 28 states, respectively.
“This is really, really different than what we see with seasonal flu,” said Anne Schuchat, MD, director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, who led the briefing." (Source.)
