I don't know how accurate this is, but this article mentions that there are 250,000 to 500,000 deaths worldwide from the seasonal flu:dleewo wrote:That actually does put it into perspective. I don't know if 20,000 is in the US or worldwide, but that is almost 55 people per day whereas the current reported deaths from swine flu is just over 100 over several days.txfireguy2003 wrote: To put things into perspective....20,000 people die as a result of complications associated with the common flu every year. .
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090428/ts_nm/us_flu_91
Even at the low end, that almost 700 deaths PER DAY from the regular flu! I would have never imagined that there were so many deaths from the flu.