Millions of people a year catch the flu in the U.S., and an average of 37,000 people die from it annually. Those are big numbers compared to what’s happened thus far with the swine flu. It kinda makes you wonder if this swine flu is being blown way out of proportion.
(And, yes, I am refusing to do the now politically-correct thing and call it “H1N1.”)
Political agendas and money trail aside, there seems to be another reason why this new virus is getting a lot of press: We’ve been warned about it’s potential to go pandemic for years.