This particular strain of swine flu is based on the H1N1 variant of influenza A, otherwise known as the common flu, easily treated and survivable. To date, there have only been about 300 confirmed cases of it world wide, with most of them actually in the US (91 of them). Of those 300 confirmed cases, only 8 people have died from it and at least one of them was an infant that was ill before contracting the Swine flu. There is being vigilant, then there is overreacting. This is a massive case of overreacting.

i heard it was console exclusive? is that true? or is it coming to PC too?

The 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic was the same strain of virus, killing anything from 20 to 100 million people worldwide. It had a slow start too, then when it got up to speed it was too late.
A 8/300 death rate from a flu virus is anything from common in a developed country in these days, and we haven't reached anywhere near an outbreak yet.

i love how people think the world operates the same it did a hundred years ago.

Did I say it did?
If anything, a global pandemic is more likely these days because viruses can travel all around the world in a day. Back then it took weeks.
All we have are better drugs and medical facilities. That doesn't help squat if the most important part fails to deal with the threat - the human immune system.
The attitude was much the same back then, nobody really saw it as a threat until it had suddenly killed off half of the neighbourhood.
Human ignorance is the only constant.

1918, before anti-viral medications, vaccinations and modern health care. Not a valid comparison at all.
8 out of 300, 7 in Mexico, one in the US, but that one was someone visiting from Mexico (the infant I mentioned above). That says much more about the state of the Mexican health care system than it does about the threat of this virus.

Modern anti-viral drugs will not help if the virus is particularly resistant, or mutates again from prolonged contant with the human immune system to become more resistant. Even people who have stocked up on flu medicines beforehand might find they have wasted good cash if they contract this.
Global pandemics only occur once every few hundred years on average. The basic logic of human beings, which have not experienced such an event in their lifetime, is that something like that could never happen. It's the same way with meteor impacts - just because it hasn't happened on any scale for a good while (well, actually it has, Tunguska in Siberia was hit by a large meteor less than a century ago), means that we're all fine and safe and it will never happen again, these people watching the skies trying to figure out whether a meteor is likely to hit are just self-important jerks.
Of course the comparison is valid. Ask any doctor. Personally I'm almost glad we have something new dominating the news scene. I really can't take more of financial analysts saying that the crisis is either over soon, or not, or that Susan Boyle thing.

Uhm, yes it does, actually. In fact, it only becomes necessary if the human immune system fails to deal with the threat on its own. Which it will, in the majority of cases. Deal with it on its own, that is.
This is not the black death. It's the flu. It may be a strain that we have less immunity to than most, but it's still the flu. The people who are at risk are the usual ones. Infants, old people, and people who are already weakened by other conditions.
Of course, in third world countries, large portions of the population may already be weakened by other conditions, and in addition to that, there is little or no medical aid available. So yes, this virus could potentially kill millions, but not here. I'm hoping someone has contingency plans for dealing with this in Africa, otherwise it could be a major disaster there.

Not to mention, no one ever said that a pandemic wouldn't or couldn't happen, just that this barely even qualifies as an outbreak, let alone an epidemic or pandemic. There is absolutely no need for the news media, governments or the general public to be running around like the sky is falling when as it stands right now, this is no worse than the normal flu outbreak we see every single year.

I think it is platform neutral, but at this point has only been released in limited territories.
(Sorry, that's probably not funny.)

It's probably not anything to get worked up about, but it's good that health organizations worldwide are keeping close tabs on it (99% of the time potential pandemics end up being nothing, but you still want to treat them all seriously so that you catch that 1% that actually are trouble early). While the reported mortality rate is quite a bit higher than typical for an influenza strain (typical is around 0.1%), the fact that there are probably many more undocumented than documented cases (which all amounted to nothing serious) means that the mortality rate of documented cases is likely to be significantly higher than the actual mortality rate. Also, as the virus is quite susceptible to oseltamivir (TamiFlu) and zanamivir it's currently quite treatable, provided that individuals that develop serious complications actually seek medical treatment. While there was some initial speculation that this H1N1 strain could trigger hypercytokinemia (making those with healthy immune systems much more at risk of death), the CDC has reported there isn't any conclusive data on this actually occurring. Bottom line: something to keep an eye on as more information becomes available, but currently not something to be all that concerned about.

Apprently they're putting securom in and are trying to figure out how to stop the self replication so they can charge by the unit

http://xkcd.com/574/

Anyone else thinks that the flu is genetically engineered by Wall Street to keep public interested in it instead on them?
It is public knowledge that recent recession is their doing so Illuminati can bring New World Order but since people were onto them it would be logical to occupy public with something else.
Hence the swine flu.

Those cunning bastards! Its like how they caused WW2 (using robot ninjas) to take people's minds off the great depression