Swine

Brendan- Interesting post. I didn't really think this thing was that serious, I didn't know why people were so worried.

A quick note:
The Swine flue may become pandemic which is even worse the epidemic.

Check out this article though.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/27/pandemic.next/index.html

It's scary:

"The disease would skip from city to city over an 18-to-24 month period, infecting more than a third of the population. World health Organization officials believe as many as 1.5 billion people around the globe would seek medical care and nearly 30 million would seek hospitalization. Based on the last pandemic and current world population, as many as 7 million people could die, epidemiologists said.


"Hospitals will become overcrowded, schools will close, businesses will close, airports will be empty," Dr. Lo said.
"Business will become very bad, as people avoid as much social contact as possible," added Dr. Yuen.

Health facilities will become overrun with patients and there would be less-than-adequate staffing, as medical health professionals fall ill themselves, experts say. "We saw cases in SARS where people who should have gone to the hospital for things like cancer treatment didn't go, and that resulted in higher deaths," Dr. Lo said."