mexican flu, media flu

There is something weird about this Mexican flu thing. Last weekend, Expert Number One Marc Van Ranst, explained in De Standaard that his apocalyptic view of 7 deaths/day this autumn/winter in a worst case scenario is not out of the ordinary. Every year a 1000 people die during a 3 month flu-peak ... that's ten a day. Every day 3 people get infected with HIV in Belgium. And the same number with TBC. Nobody gives a damn. But now that we have 126 cases of confirmed flu we read about emergency scenario's, local communities preparing, hospitals trying out and the army (!!!) distributing vaccins and masks to 15 distribution points. Did some high up offcial read the 'Outbreak' script perhaps? Djeezes!