Why are the Governments and medias talking about swine flu if the Common flu kills 680 times more people?

You have no idea what you are talking about. You are using terms that are innacurate and ones that I have never heard of. I have a degree in microbiology and immunology with a pretty extensive background in influenza. You should learn a bit more about influenza A and its history as well as exactly how a pandemic works. the strain we are dealing with now will most likely be different and could be very strong (pandemics come in waves, usually 2-3 over many years). We have not seen the end of this. In past outbreaks, the first wave was relatively mild, while the next few were deadly.....between 50-100 million people died as a result of the 1918 pandemic worldwide.......that is why health authorities are being cautious and are monitoring the situation. If they didn't come forward until it hit (to avoid public panic) they would be charged with negligence by the public and criticized heavily.

and the bird flu is the swine flu.....they are both influenza A (it can come to humans directly from waterfowl, birds, or pigs or via a few steps (eg waterfowl/bird to pig to human). But they are the same.

And if you think nothing happened with v-BSE (mad cow disease in humans) you are wrong. What happens is the media does a piss-poor job of educating the public, and stops reporting on issues when they feel like it. Just because you don't read about something doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

Great question. Regular flu kills about 36,000 people each year in the US, but I never hear a panic about it. I think one reason people are over reacting to the swine flu is that it is a strain of flu that many people have not heard of before, and sometimes people get scared of things they are not familiar with.

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both disease caused by virus only there was exaggerations on swine flu , just because it is originated from a swine or pig , the common flu it is very popular disease since the world began as they say , so the notion is that there is no special about. not knowing the true implications of the to causative organisms.

We've never seen this type of influenza before, however. We don't know how it will mutate. For all we know it could fade away....or it could kill us all in a couple months. We don't know.

And that's why everyone's worried. It's perfectly logical to get a little anxious over this.

Swine Flu has just started, it will get a lot worse as we have no vaccine or immune system.

because they're stupid.... duh. :)