Reply #141: 20 case in US, so far, no deaths so far known. That's good news. That's NOT

[John Q. Citizen]

Spanish flu, so far, in terms of a public health danger.

That doesn't mean it can't mutate to be more virulent. It could. But it also may not.
So before you jump to the conclusion that this is what the experts have been fearing, please don't.


Every year, Flu kills tens of thousands of people. You aren't any less dead if you die from normal expected human flu than if you die of a new strain which has crossed the species barrier.

While this new strain is of great concern because it contains SOME of the elements of a flu that could cause a pandemic with high mortality rates, it also doesn't contain some of the elements.

For instance, since this flu contains some human virus, our systems may have some immunity built in, since we have all had the flu at some point or another.