We had an expert come in & talk to us about swine flu at work, as we deal with loads of swine flu samples & were worried about contracting it ( basically, idiot doctors seem to think that its ok to post leaky samples to us ), the expert told us that this making news as it was out of season, compared to other strains of flu. The mortality rate isnt that high, i was actually surprised at how high the figure was for normal flu deaths. There is alot of background noise, such as other viruses, so its been a lil tricky to diagnose, its been dealt with by the HPA & they have been swamped. Anyway, the big reason for the scare is that it has the potential to mutate & become more lethal. There is alot of scaremongering in the media ( remember SARS, bird flu & africanised bees ) Actually, man-flu is much worse