Teacher Died of H1N1 in New York

Quite shocking as to how a tiny weeny flu virus could kill, i always underestimated flu and thought it could be passed off with some antibiotic or such, but until z told me the story of the 'Spanish Flu' in 1918, spreading even to the Arctic and remote Pacific islands, which wiped out so many people worldwide. The next closest flu epidemic that i could ever remember was SARS, in 2002.

From memory, there were people who died from SARS in Singapore back then, and pre-primary schools were shut, i think i was having my O's then and we were hoping that sch would stop but of coz it wasnt severe enough for such a cause. Today i read that there is an increase of H1N1 cases in Japan up to 121 cases, and it took the live of a teacher in NY. The latest WHO data showed 8,451 people in 38 countries confirmed to have caught the H1N1 virus.

No one really knows the origin of such pandemic, i hope there would be some drug that could improve our immunity against such viruses & for those out there, do not pass of flu simply, it could well be something really serious.