Well, it seems like deja vu all over again.... I seem to recall some kind of dire warnings about bird flu. Now we have swine/bird/human flu all mixed together, and we have the press going ga-ga again with the predictions of doom. I pity the pigs in Egypt -- being a majority Muslim country, pigs are only raised there for the minority Christian/non-vegetarian population, so the government, in all their infinite wisdom, had no problem ordering all pigs to be slaughtered despite the fact that you can't get swine flu from eating pigs.
Do I hear the cry of a wolf?
It now appears that swine flu is no more deadly than any other garden variety kind of flu, which unfortunately people can and do die from, particularly if they are young (and therefore haven't been exposed to as many viruses as us oldsters) or have other medical issues.
When will the press learn that it is irresponsible to try to a cause a panic just for the sake of ratings? Tsk tsk.
