Mortality is around .6 percent if you use the number of those believed to be infected, rather than the number confirmed, and you use the large number of dead, not the small one.

That is the same as seasonal flu.

Traditional mortality rates are not based soley upone those hospitalized with severe cases. The WHO's numbers are for their own purposes. They are not comparable to historical records.

I was thinking it may be possible, that the reason the middle aged are dying was because most of the time when we get the flu or colds we self medicate instead of seeing the Dr. and the vast majority of people keep on keeing on instead of treating it like the illness it is and doing what you are supposed to do, when your sick - rest.

So many people that I know continue to run themselves ragged when they are sick and this seems to be such a nasty virus we should heed the warnings and take better care of ourselves.

With that being said, they say the first case seen here in the U.S. was on March 28 - a month ago. My entire family was very sick four to six weeks ago. The aches and pains and upper respitory problems we all had paled in comparison to other flu's. We may have have just gotten sick during the tail-end of flu season, but it makes me wonder if this virus hasn't been around a bit longer than they think.

By the way, I'm in Ohio and we have confirmed, probable and suspected cases.

People are forgetting a very important point, In America most people are very diligent with the seasonal flu vaccine every year, this will ease the symptoms of the swain flue that are equal to seasonal flu.

Mexico health care is not available to everybody, only those few closes to city areas are the ones that may get more quality care.

Plus the Mexican government is not ready for a pandemic like this one and neither many developing countries.

BTW US health care compare to Mexico is good but compare to other modern civilized nations we actually rank in the 20s.

how is this possible that we have 2,600 cases here in the U.S. yet in Mexio there were only 800 or 900? How did we surpass Mexico a third world country. I bet more people had this flu in Mexico than what is reported. I bet the real totals are closer to the thousands.