Does it? 100+ deaths vs. 1,600 suspected infections. Unless you think most infections go unreported (because they are mild enough for self-treatment).
According to media reports, it is young healthy adults aged 20-40.
Ah, you might want to check your math.
App. 6% is the going rate for pandemic flu outbreaks and while bad, it could be worse...A LOT WORSE. What is not normal is the fact that it has high human-to-human infection potential and the fact that it is hitting hardest fully developed immune systems. This tends to point to the induction of a perfect storm of an immune response that ends up killing you. This is not something easily treatable even in the western world.
you obviously weren't paying that close attention otherwise you'd know that this is already a mutation combining elements of swine flu, chicken flu and human flu.
You might want to stick to shit you know and stay away from science, especially when your blind hatred is showing!
...a break out in a bird flu endemic area could lead to further combinations that would not be pretty...
While this is an swine Influenza A virus of the type H1N1, it can still pick up components of the avian Influenza A virus of the type H5N1 (bird flu) when co-infecting beasties (humans included). Combining highly pathogenic strains with highly infectious strains that retain both component rates (infection/pathogenicity) is what could lead to a Cat 5 or worse pandemic.
Now, that hasn't happened (yet) and may not happen (hopefully), but I can guarantee you it is being considered as the worst case scenario as it should be.
