Is the swine flu really killing off that many more people than the regular flu? Sources?

All of my info comes from the center for disease control web site, which I will link to in the links portion of the answer. This short piece from the page suggests that H1N1 is not really that much more severe then influenza: Illness with 2009 H1N1 virus has ranged from mild to severe. While most people who have been sick have recovered without needing medical treatment, hospitalizations and deaths from infection with this virus have occurred.In seasonal flu, certain people are at “high risk�

Of serious complications. This includes people 65 years and older, children younger than five years old, pregnant women, and people of any age with certain chronic medical conditions. About 70 percent of people who have been hospitalized with this 2009 H1N1 virus have had one or more medical conditions previously recognized as placing people at “high risk�

Of serious seasonal flu-related complications. This includes pregnancy, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and kidney disease. The following is about the number of deaths from H1N1: From August 30, 2009 through October 10, 2009, states reported 292 laboratory-confirmed 2009 H1N1 deaths to CDC.

Curiously this seems to also be the total deaths from general influenza which makes me think that they do not break out the numbers, so I went back to 2006 and found a report indicating that over 56000 people died from influenza. Which makes me think that H1N1 isn't that much worse then regular influenza. The cdc site is difficult to crawl around in though, I'm sure someone could find more data on this.

But it seems like in summary H1N1 is very similar to regular influenza, and most people will recover from it just fine.

All of my info comes from the center for disease control web site, which I will link to in the links portion of the answer. This short piece from the page suggests that H1N1 is not really that much more severe then influenza: Illness with 2009 H1N1 virus has ranged from mild to severe. While most people who have been sick have recovered without needing medical treatment, hospitalizations and deaths from infection with this virus have occurred.In seasonal flu, certain people are at “high risk” of serious complications.

This includes people 65 years and older, children younger than five years old, pregnant women, and people of any age with certain chronic medical conditions. About 70 percent of people who have been hospitalized with this 2009 H1N1 virus have had one or more medical conditions previously recognized as placing people at “high risk” of serious seasonal flu-related complications. This includes pregnancy, diabetes, heart disease, asthma and kidney disease.

The following is about the number of deaths from H1N1: From August 30, 2009 through October 10, 2009, states reported 292 laboratory-confirmed 2009 H1N1 deaths to CDC. Curiously this seems to also be the total deaths from general influenza which makes me think that they do not break out the numbers, so I went back to 2006 and found a report indicating that over 56000 people died from influenza. Which makes me think that H1N1 isn't that much worse then regular influenza.

The cdc site is difficult to crawl around in though, I'm sure someone could find more data on this. But it seems like in summary H1N1 is very similar to regular influenza, and most people will recover from it just fine.

Yes. I think the swin flu has some kind of diffrent thing in it then the regular flu that is killing people it kills kids and elderly people then anything but so does the regular flu I don't really understand it but the swin flu is worse then the regular flu.

I can only speak for what I know about the Netherlands. Yearly about 1100 people die due from the flu. Up to now H1N1 has only 11 deaths to it's name.So not really a big amount, but flu season is just starting.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.