Reply #9: Kills how many though?

[Chemisse]

If 70 people out of 1200 died in Mexico, that is a pretty high fatality rate (nearly 6 %).

If you planned a wedding for after the flu passed through, and you invited 200 people, 12 of them would be unable to attend because they were dead.

Plus if nobody has any immunities to this, then a high percentage of the population would wind up getting it. So worldwide, millions could die.

That said, I am wondering why it doesn't seem too serious in this country so far. Maybe far more people in Mexico were infected than what was reported. That would mean the deaths are a much smaller percent of those infected. (Let's hope!)