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Originally Posted by HarryT
There is little reason to feel "scared" by it. There seems little evidence that, outside Mexico, this flu variant is any "nastier" than the typical winter flu (and this last winter's was, in the UK at least, a pretty nasty one). It is being postulated in several sources that I've seen that the reason it's killing people in Mexico is that it's interacting with some other virus that's already endemic in the local population and that, by itself, it's not a particularly nasty virus.
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Now I feel better
Just watching the news and they say there's 25 cases in the UK under investigation, 3 confirmed. The WHO are meeting now and it looks like they're going to elevate the outbreak to a Level 4 or 5 (6 is Pandemic). They also said that the cases in UK are being successfully treated with anti-virals.