On: World health chief says it may be too late to contain swine flu

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You seem to speak as if the swine flu is a new outbreak of the Spanish flu, it isn't.

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According to the article, it has a similar mortality rate, and the age profile of its victims is similar.

That's not much data, I'll grant you, but it's enough to suggest that it could be fairly similar.