First Person to die from Swine Flu...

[LuketheDuke]

with no other underlying health problems.

Although nothing else is known of this person at this current time, might have been an older man/woman or summit.

Time to start panicking?

[beth]

i've had swine flu, it's nothing more than the flu.
it's boring actually.

[Jordy]

Hmm that's a reasonably fatal statistic tbh, not particularly reliable but that's 1 healthy person dead in 10,000 cases.

Assuming our population has 60 million people and 1/10000 healthy people die then there could be 6,000 healthy people die in the UK if the whole population got it.

[Plank]

Sky news article here

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-...Essex_Hospital

[Teabags]

10,000 UK cases. 3rd most infected country.

Yeah it's 14 deaths.
34 Critical.
That makes quite alot of cases harmless.

There are many types of Swine flu
e.g. HN21, HN22, etc.

HN21 is the only dangerous form of virus.

[GommeInc]

Agreed - it is why I don't really care about swine flu. It is just a flu, a virus (not a disease like some brain dead newspaper editors think it is, idiots), there is no reason to be too scared of it. It'll be interesting to see what happens during the winter.

[Plank]

The only thing that worries me is that it is spreading so quickly, even in the summer. But like what has been said, the chances of dying are extremely small - I just hope these figures stay down. It has now started taking its sweep through schools in my area, so I'm bound to get it sooner or later.

Although I read somewhere, vaccines are going to be offered to everyone in my region next month! Don't know about the rest of the country :S

"Every person living in East Anglia will be offered a vaccine against swine flu"

http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24...A01%3A43%3A143

[Mentor]

At the rate of spread, this could very well be almost as dangerous (but not quite as its much more mild) than normal flue, within the next 5-50 years.. Oh noes.

The whole swine flu thing is a little ridiculous, your more likely to die from being struck by lighnig than even catch it at current.

[Wahey]

I won't get Swine Flu cause no one here has it basically

[CHA!NGANG]

I had it or a normal flu but considering it was summer and hot and I was around people that may have had it I think it was swine flu, and it was nothing big was fine in a few weeks.