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Originally Posted by funchy 
Swine flu is not "mild". It's spreading and at the moment most grade schools in the county are reporting students with it. My friends who family got terribly ill with it (and it was verified by testing it's the H1N1, not some other flu). My local hospital has a whole region of rooms set up as isolation wards for the incoming flu patients, and clearly these people are so sick they need hospitalization.
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This article is saying that it is milder than the seasonal flu but more widespread. That means it is more contagious. It looks like someone has run away with
their article.
"The H1N1 flu has
milder symptoms and..."
Here is
CNN article.
It says: "Yes, hearing between 30,000 and 90,000 could die from H1N1 is scary, but keep in mind -- around 40,000 people die from the regular or seasonal flu every year. The numbers may not be that much different, yet there is not panic about the regular flu. As things look now, H1N1 is causing only
mild to moderate illness, not the widespread deaths people are worried about."
Here is
Reuters article: "Seasonal flu has a death rate of less than 0.1 percent -- but still manages to kill 250,000 to 500,000 people globally every year." "He came up with a range of mortality from swine flu, from 0.007 percent to 0.045 percent. That is 7 to 45 out of every 1,000.
I made a big mistake and no one caught it. 0.007 is 7 out of 1,000. But 0.007 percent is 7 (and 45) out of 100,000 people.
Either way, having new information about how many people were infected and did not become severely ill or die makes the pandemic look
very mild, he said."
Do you have a reputable source saying that it not milder than seasonal flu?