[R_Kangel]

I wonder if this will raise the average of people who die of influenza each year in the US?

The national average is that 36,000 people die from flu-related sicknesses every year.

Somehow 36,000 people dieing EVERY YEAR is not an epidemic but a few people dieing of "Swine Flu," which is still a flu related sickness, is.

[DonaldC]

“Somehow 36,000 people dieing EVERY YEAR is not an epidemic but a few people dieing of “Swine Flu,” which is still a flu related sickness, is.”

Yea, I’ve been wondering the same thing.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Somehow 36,000 people dieing EVERY YEAR is not an epidemic but a few people dieing of “Swine Flu,” which is still a flu related sickness, is.

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There’s something real here. The noise level of annual deaths is about old or sick people succumbing, and does not represent an opportunity to “break” out. What’s different here, and it may be a low probability outcome, is that this (like the epidemic that killed 50,000,000 in 1918) seems to hit healthy adults with string immune systems, and thus can break out and expand exponentially.

That’s a low probability, but it is a VERY grave concern if it proves true. and we have no way of knowing now if it will.