They're not quarantining people in the US for swine flu, either -- it's pretty much become a non-issue. The only reason they were concerned about it initially is because of similarities to Spanish flu, since a significant percentage of the early mortalities were young people. Spanish flu was novel in that the demographic most at risk were the young and healthy, due to an autoimmune reaction to the flu which was magnified by the strength of one's immune system. H1N1, in its current form, doesn't provoke this autoimmune reaction. I really think this whole debacle tells us more about people's fear of disease and blind trust of anecdotal evidence and precocious statistics than it tells us about how to actually deal with flu (which, in most places, is a yearly occurrence).
I hope someone actually reads and understands what I'm saying, because I've typed it many, many times. o_o
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