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To put the 2009 swine flu “pandemic” into some perspective, this slides uses estimated numbers and rates of deaths attributed to past major infectious disease pandemics.

WHO and their flu experts were fearful that the new H1N1 virus, first detected in Mexico in March, 2009 might be as deadly as the 1918 “Spanish flu” pandemic and result in up to 100 million deaths!

In retrospect, the 2009 H1N1 Swine influenza “pandemic” probably caused a few hundred thousand deaths world-wide, which was clearly much more severe than the one documented death that triggered the Swine flu scare of 1976, but the global death toll from the 2009 “pandemic” was less than that usually caused by “seasonal” flu epidemics!