2009 Swine Flu Death Toll Much Higher Than Thought

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2009 Swine Flu Death Toll Much Higher Than Thought

The 2009 H1N1 flu virus viewed under the microscope.

By the World Health Organization’s official tally, the flu pandemic of 2009-10 killed 18,449 people around the world. Those are deaths of people who had laboratory-confirmed cases of the so-called swine flu.

But a fresh analysis says the real toll was 10 times higher — up to 203,000 deaths. And maybe it was twice that, if you count people who died of things like heart attacks precipitated by the flu.

Let’s take the conservative figure of 203,000. That’s about the same as a normal flu season. So the figure confirms the popular impression that the H1N1 flu pandemic of 2009 was a paper tiger, as these things go.

I survived the swine flu. It was the sickest I have ever been by far. I was in bed for 4 days and by that i mean literally in bed the whole time. Fever was all over the place, the body aches were unbearable. All I could do was roll around alot and moan for 4 days. Id say overall it took almost 2 weeks to recover fully but those 4 days were the worst. I am not suprised that this toll went up. What suprises me is that they seemingly have to guess this kind of stuff. Anyone else get this? Tell us your experience and comment below. -Mort