This sucker is mean, so mean that it has killed 80 people in Mexico City, a city of 20 million. Let's contrast this with an estimated US murder rate of 8 murders per 100,000 people. Using the US murder rate and multiply 8 by 20 times, you'd have 160 murders in a city of 20 million--contrast that with the murder rate of Detroit /year, or Chicago.
And this doesn't take in
to consideration the murderous madness that has taken place since the economy crashed in the country. No matter how you swing it, unless this thing does what the pessimists say it will do and turn into an epidemic of wildfire proportions, we are still more vulnerable to murder and domestic violence than swine flu--even if, as many suspect, this current version came out of some Frankenstein's laboratory and is a manufactured product.
The conspiracy nuts are losing their minds over this. Experts say this version of Swine flu contains several unnatural elements--which many say was artificially manufactured and came out of a lab. Now, we hear that the Army's premier biological warfare facility at Fort Mead may be missing a few nasty bugs.
An area newspaper is reporting that, "Chad Jones, spokesman for Fort Meade, said CID is investigating the possibility of missing virus samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases."