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Originally Posted by therunner  What about the "dengue"...it kills and it has more mortar rate than this and no one says anything...why? because the news says what they want to sell... |
you meant to say Lethality rate not mortality rate
FYI - Mortality rate is the number of deaths caused by a certain disease in a population
- Lethality rate is the number of deaths among those who already carry the illness.
So even though Dengue has a high lethality rate (many of those who catch it will die), it has a pretty low mortality rate (how many people die in the US per 100,000 in the population? not that many because there are not that many occurrences of the dengue fever)
Dengue is a tropical illness, and not only is it not a pandemic, in reality it is quite hard to become one. Mostly due to the fact that it's pretty fast to kill it's victims and they do not have "enough time" to spread the virus around.
Swine Flu is serious and its not because the news say what they want to sell. WHO does not want to sell news and they certainly do not want to cause panic for no reason. Believe me, the Dengue fever is much more interesting than flu and when even a tiny epidemic pops in the US it will be all over the news.
Flu is a very serious yet very underestimated disease.
Asian Flu 1956 - up to 4 million victims in 2 years
Hong Kong flu 1968 - 1 million people in 1 year
Spanish Flu 1918 - 1% of the earth's population was killed in 2 years. 50-100million people