Tom reviews swine flu

Here's some fun facts about trendy diseases of the past few years:
- Anthrax attacks: 22 infected (according to Wiki... sorry).

- SARS in the United States: at the most, around 70-something per year (according to WHO).

- Avian Flu: in a report from 2006 "since 2003, fewer than 200 human cases have been laboratory confirmed" (from WHO).

- West Nile: "during 2007, a total of 3,630 cases of WNV disease in humans were reported" (from CDC). Since the population of the United States was around 304 million in 2008 (according to the census people), that means a whopping .00001 percent of the population got infected. With a mortality rate of 4%, that made this a particularly dangerous disease on this list.

- Swine Flu: 20 cases (according to WHO)

Wanna know some diseases that are more deadly, far spread, and/or communicable than all of those diseases combined? The ACS reported 1,437,180 new cases of cancer in 2008 (that's 7,185 times the amount that got Avian Flu in 3 years), 44,084 new cases of AIDS in the US according to avert.org, and a bullet to the face with 12,785 deaths in 2006 according to the CDC!

Sooooo...

What grade do I give the swine flu hype?

That's what I give it.