The numbers are more like 900 infections 60 dead.
WHO (World Health Organization) had a big meeting today and came out with an announcement that said this particular flu appears to have the ability to participate in a pandemic ~ that is, it's an Olympic Class athlete among flu viruses, and, with 8 out of 90 who've been diagnosed as having the disease dropping dead, we already have a 9% deathrate.
That's pretty serious.
With no one having any natural immunity to any swine flu virus of any kind, it's possible everybody could catch this one ~ but Tamiflu seems to work in some cases (they hope).