EC83 Wrote:
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> OK. Even if the reports of this cocktail of flu
> viruses are true, I think we need to keep the
> stats in perspective, assuming that the article
> has got the correct ones:
>
> The death toll has reached 189 and more than 1
> million people have been infected, most of them in
> the nine regions of Western Ukraine.
>
> My maths isn't great, but doesn't that work out at
> a death rate of less than 1 in 5,000 so far?
> Like Dave said, regular flu is more deadly every
> winter than this one has been so far.
Exactly mate.
In my country the Swine flu when they tried to make believe everyone
that we had an "outbreak", the truth was their was very few cases in
each province (similar to "States"
but extremely exagerated by media
and that caused much panic among the population making it look far
more worst than it actually was.