Swine Sars!

[Papa_Complex]

Originally Posted by pickle.of.doom

Some have predicted that 30 million Americans will die from influenza in 2009. Probably whackos, lets all hope so at least!

In the 1918 epidemic, roughly 675,000 Americans died of Spanish Flu. The population of America was about 105,000,000 at the time, so it killed less than 1% of the population. Anyone who states unequivocally that one in 10 Americans would die from a strain of flu that is vulnerable to modern antivirals, even taking into account the massively higher population densities, has been playing football without a helmet far too often.