Could Swine Flu Be the Next Spanish Influenza?

Forget the swine flu outbreak of 1976. Today's outbreak may turn out to be more like the 1918 Spanish influenza epidemic, which started off mild then reemerged to kill millions.

[Josh]

Lederberg passed away a few years ago. This article is obviously not original....probably cut and pasted from old articles.

[Millie]

He said it in 1997, as it says in the article.

I think swine flu is terrifying.

[Helen]

Way to read, Josh.

[Evelyn]

Great, way to scare people with that insane lead paragraph. The sites you mentioned were useful tho.

[Dani]

It was a little Spanish flu...dadadadadadada

[Gina]

Why do people freak out? Its a little bug and if you wash your hands (which hopefully everyone does already) than you will be fine...and dont do things that stimulate sickness...and dont sneeze on people...thats just gross.

[marcuss]

it is tha same flu as was in 1918, except it has been joined with the avian, human, and swine flus.

this virus was engineered in a lab.

[Mr Charlie]

Gina wrote:

Why do people freak out? Its a little bug and if you wash your hands (which hopefully everyone does already) than you will be fine...and dont do things that stimulate sickness...and dont sneeze on people...thats just gross.

If all you have to do is wash your hands, then why do we have to wear the masks?

[Haley]

lol...now we're going to have a bunch of Twilight fans trying to get Edward's disease.

[Sam]

I think it is quite possible for this swine flu to turn out as deadly as the spanish influenza i guess we will just have to wait for the second wave to come , that's if there is one
( hope not ), around September maybe ..

[bianca rodriguez]

this is really bad how can this be happening to the world

[Janet]

Swine flu seems to be picking up momentum. I just might consider getting that vaccination after all.

[Angela]

YIKES!

[Raeghan]

i am 13 years old and am doing my research paper on the pandimic of 1918. i agree that the swin flu is like the spanish influenze. all the people i have shared that oppinion with disagree and say i don't know what i am talking about.

[JonnyB Good]

I had swine flu. Everyone in NYC has it. Knocks you out for a couple days with fatigue, aches, exhaustion and the like, then lingers in the form of cold symptoms for up to week after that. They're now telling pretty much anyone in the city experiencing flu symptoms that they've got the swine. No fun, but definitely not the apocalypse either.