Hah.. All of the Canadian and US cases are mild. I don't think anyone's been hospitalized or anything yet. Mexico City has it bad because there's about 30 million people in the city and they didn't know about the virus until it had already spread to a fair amount of people.
The symptoms are the same as the seasonal flu that people always get. Nausea and vomitting, diarhea, fatigue, coughing, chills, etc. If you get it, you'll probably be fine.
I think it hits people in their late teens and twenties the hardest, though, which is odd. If you look at the mortality graphs for the Spanish flu, the one that Pam posted about that killed about 100 million people, the age brackets that had the most deaths were like.. under 5, 23-28, and over 60. Those typically weakest and those typically strongest. Weird.
Like I said though, this isn't like the H5N1, the avian flu. This is much more mild, and something that you should worry a lot less about.
EDIT: Wiki[edia has stats if you want to take a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak
The symptoms are the same as the seasonal flu that people always get. Nausea and vomitting, diarhea, fatigue, coughing, chills, etc. If you get it, you'll probably be fine.
I think it hits people in their late teens and twenties the hardest, though, which is odd. If you look at the mortality graphs for the Spanish flu, the one that Pam posted about that killed about 100 million people, the age brackets that had the most deaths were like.. under 5, 23-28, and over 60. Those typically weakest and those typically strongest. Weird.
Like I said though, this isn't like the H5N1, the avian flu. This is much more mild, and something that you should worry a lot less about.
EDIT: Wiki[edia has stats if you want to take a look.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_outbreak
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