World Health Organization (WHO) officials declared a pandemic of H1N1 influenza on Thursday, two months after the first cases of the new flu virus were reported in Mexico. It is the first flu pandemic in 41 years, since the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
World Health Organization (WHO) officials declared a pandemic of H1N1 influenza on Thursday, two months after the first cases of the new flu virus were reported in Mexico. It is the first flu pandemic in 41 years, since the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
Ok, so let me get this straight. 30,000 cases in 74 countries, that’s an average of 405.405~ cases per country; 144 confirmed deaths, that’s an average of 1.945~ deaths per country. I can’t find the exact numbers on Google right now, but if you use common reasoning on how many people catch the average flu and how many people die from the average flu, the average flu numbers are much greater. This hardly seems like a “pandemic” to me.