I was quite wrong on my guess at the fatality rate. After looking at it again it seems to be about 8% in Mexico and 5% over all.
If this does spread widely it will have serious economic consequences for a lot of the countries who get it.
So far it is next to nothing though, 100 dead out 6 billion is not even a blip. Normally influenza kills about 50,000 a year around the world.

Does anybody have any more accurate numbers?

Center for Disease Control, Influenza pages
http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/fluactivity.htm

CDC Human Swine Influenza Investigation,April 26, 2009 12:45 ET
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm

CDC Health advisory pdf
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/pdf/HAN_042509.pdf

World Health Organization, Influenza pages,
Epidemic and Pandemic Alert and Response
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/en/

WHO Swine Influenza pages
http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/index.html

Anyway, other than trying not to get sneezed on, washing our hands, and not hanging out in crowds of sick people, there is not much else we seem really able to do about it as individuals.

Except maybe being ready to provide basic health care if we or our dear ones do get it.
So for most of us this next is likely the most important page from CDC.

Interim Guidance for Swine influenza A (H1N1): Taking Care of a Sick Person in Your Home, April 25, 2009 18:30 EDT
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/guidance_homecare.htm

This document provides interim guidance and will be updated as needed

Now for a bit of history to put it into perspective.

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

That is why there is so much fear about this.
We are even more crowded together now and the result is the effect could be even worse than the Spanish Flu. This Mexican Flu has already shown itself to have just as high of a mortality rate.
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Oh No, now I am starting to really think about this.

Afternote:
Wikipedia now has a page up for this and it has quite a list of links.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_Flu

(The Wiki page seems a bit rushed so if it seems unclear take a look at the discussion page on it too.)




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