[navysealdad]

U.S. health experts noted, that deaths from influenza are common. In an
average year in the United States, about 35,000 people die ftom flu-related causes each year, and in bad years nearly twice that number. Such deaths are most often among the very young and the elderly.

In my opinion in the USA this is a mild flu. It has not spread fast as a
severe strain should act.
In the USA 100 people die from the flu each day on average.
Swine flu will not be the killer the Mass Media hopes for.......

[TornadoAlley3]

agree, I am concerned about this....no more tea parties:)

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/04/28/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry4975598.shtml

[Lovebloggers]

I think the major difference is the age group the death from the swine flu will come from. While there may be deaths associated with the flu yearly in the US, it is primarily the elderly who is hit the hardest by it. With this strain - it is pretty much everyone, and that is the scary part about this.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

I agree. That said:
1. close the damn borders
2. perform health analysis on other countries and, if someone is coming into this country from a country with a known problem, perform a health check, inoculate, if necessary, whatever.

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired because the people I work with who were born and raised in foreign countries use their vacation time to visit those countries and then come back to work with some nasty-ass sickness and spread that sickness to everyone else in the office.

[DvdMom]

2 Conn. school districts closed over swine flu
http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/national-9/1240998752288430.xml&storylist=health

— HARTFORD, Conn Two Connecticut school districts have closed for the day amid concerns about swine flu and two probable cases elsewhere in the state have been reported.

[Straight Vermonter]

In the USA 100 people die from the flu each day on average.

This is the full year average but almost all flu deaths happen in the winter and spring. We should be seeing ~200 deaths per day at this time of year.

[FBD]

well stated.

-and 13,000 cases of tuberculosis in the US last year.