13,000 Americans dead from Flu since beginning of year

[dead0man]

..and at least a quarter or a million world wide.
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How many people have fallen ill with flu during this time? Only by knowing the death rate can one possibly compare the impact of regular flu and the potential swine flu pandemic.

You are 100% correct and since none of the Americans that have the Swine Flu have died from it I'm guessing the death rate for "regular" flu is currently higher than for that of the Swine Flu.  This is true for every country in the world except Mexico. (and it may be true there as well, we'll probably never know)

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I suppose, but with so few actually dead it's kind of hard to tell.

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There are dozen of factors keeping the current swine flu scare from reaching 1918 levels.

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