Everybody is talking about it, the swine flu. And because everybody is talking about it, news channels are reporting about it and governments are preparing for it, it looks like the deadliest disease in the world. But is it?

If you get infected with the swine flu, it isn’t over for you. No, it is just a different type of flu… As we don’t have a vaccine for the normal flu (tamiflu is no vaccine) we don’t have a cure for the swine flu either. But the flu isn’t a big killer, so why should the next one be?