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"These surveillance data allows for first estimation of direct lethality due to H1N1pdm to be 1 per 10,000 infections, about 100 times more than regular seasonal influenza."

It has been said around 35,000 people die in the USA alone every year due to the flu. If this H1N1 strain, made up of Swine/Avian/and 2 DIFFERENT strains of human flu is around 100 times more lethal, then we are looking ata potential death toll of 3,500,000 dead in the United States alone!

It looks like 3.5 million deaths because of me.

I should have posted more of the study.

"100 times more lethal" refers only to those who develop ARDS as a result of the flu. ARDS is rare in flu cases. Study estimates that of everyone who gets the normal flu in France, one in a million develops ARDS. Country sees only 5 to 10 cases a year.

Works like this (numbers are made up):

Normal flu: 1000 people develop ARDS. 1 dies.

This flu: 1000 people develop ARDS. 100 die.

The study does not show what the fatality rate for the flu is or how much more likely anyone is to get ARDS.

What the study does show is we're dealing with something very different than the regular flu.