SWINE FLU

This is in response to "Understanding the Deadly Flu Virus". In the article, Katherarine Mieszkowski quotes the World Health Organization, "Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia." I think that the world took the H1N1 virus way to seriously. She stated how Egypt, which has had no cases of infection, took the extraordinary step of attempting to slaughter the country's 300,000 pigs. This honestly is a little extreme and concerning. Countries are going way over the extreme to try and beat the Swine Flu. Studies have shown that the virus killed so much less people then the yearly flu does. In Mexico the outbreak was much more "catastrophic" then in the U.S. However, that's because the living conditions are terrible compared to the U.S. In Mexico, a lot of the food and water, especially in the poorer regions contain a lot of bacteria and viruses such as H1N1. In the U.S., only around 5 people died from the H1N1 virus, and those people were all Senior Citizens or baby's. The Swine Flu is no more then the usual flu or pneumonia, its not an epidemic like Small Pox or Ebola, however the world made it out be like that.