Swine flu could mix with bird flu, expert warns
MEXICO CITY - Bird flu kills more than 60 percent of its human victims, but doesn't easily pass from person to person. Swine flu can be spread with a sneeze or handshake, but kills only a small fraction of the people it infects.
So what happens if they mix?
This is the scenario that has some scientists worried: The two viruses meet — possibly in Asia, where bird flu is endemic — and combine into a new bug that is both highly contagious and lethal and can spread around the world.
........................
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30640335 if you feel like reading the whole thing.
So, don't stop being scared for your life yet...even though we finally admit swine flu doesn't kill a large percentage of people it infects. You might still die, if some unlikely cascade of events takes place that we have no reason to think will. What if Aids and swine flu combine (that would blow Jew and Muslim mind to know they have an STD from a pig)...stay tuned.