[Georgia Girl 2]

98.5% or greater of the people who get this flu completely recover. Now how scary does that sound?

Turn off the TV and wash your hands and stay out of crowds just like for the regular flu. This is not an epidemic.

[grey_whiskers]

(Shakes head.) It's not the flu. And they don't "completely recover". There are reports from China of people getting re-infected and dying: the mechanism is antibody-dependent enhancement, which was already known to exist from dengue fever.

It is also reported that a lot of survivors may be infertile, as the virus attacks binding sites in the testes.

And of those who do require advanced medical care (roughly 10% of those tested positive), many suffer lifelong damage to the lungs.

The issue is not the 90% of people who shrug it off; the issue is the very severe side effects among those who *don't*.