I will refer you to post #8. Many people get seasonal flu, and die from complications such as pneumonia. The swine flu scare was exactly that. Heck, even John Kerry tried to make hay out of the flu recently. My contention is this: Asia and the middle east are attempting to extort financial gain. Using the World Health Organization. Even 2,000 deaths in Asia is not considered pandemic. 80 deaths over two years. Malaria, dysentery, and viral pneumonia kill millions.
Since people in the US get the seasonal flu in huge numbers each year, how is the fact that most don't maintain close contact with poultry going to protect them if H5N1 learns efficient H2H spread?
I suggest that you quit harping about the swine flu and learn about what happened in 1918.
P.S. I'll ask you again. Where was the 1976 swine flu a pandemic? Please provide a breakdown of cases/fatalities by country. Thanks. (And for extra credit, make the table convincingly support your suggestion that America was safer from the swine flu than other countries.)