>>About 100,000,000 North Americans are predicted to get the Swine flu:
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>>http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=843648#ixzz0RYUkHnMA
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>How come I keep reading this is just an ordinary flu virus, and not a particularly virulent one?

Don't read first hand accounts of people who went through it already, they are biased. Read the official predictions, they are more accurate.