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I see the fear mongering media is at it again. First it was bird flu and now it is swine flu. This “epidemic” has been going on for about a month and there have been 0 deaths and 20 cases in the United States. There have been a little over a hundred deaths in Mexico. So just to be safe let’s say, world wide there have been 200 deaths from this strain of the flu. In that same time, around 1,600 people in the United States alone have died from the everyday, garden variety of the flu. World wide the death toll from the flu is around 12,500 in that same time. These statistics don’t even include pneumonia which often times the flu turns into. Add that in and it’s around 5,300 deaths in that same time period in the United States alone. This is just another example of the media whipping the population into a frenzy over nothing.