Swine flu - not the deadly disease we were told

Since most countries were just 'assuming' that anyone with flu like symptoms had swine flu, even these low morbidity and mortality figures would most likely be inflated. Plus, who knows how many of those whose deaths were put down as being from H1N1 actually died from their treatments such as Tamiflu, other anti-virals and drugs used to try and treat what in most people would just be an inconvenient but not deadly disease?

UK study confirms H1N1 far less lethal than feared | Reuters

The first comprehensive analysis of deaths from swine flu in England since the H1N1 virus was declared a pandemic in June shows there are 26 deaths in every 100,000 cases of swine flu -- a death rate of 0.026 percent.

The study echoes U.S. research published on Monday which found the H1N1 pandemic had a death rate of 0.048 percent, or 1 death in 2,000 cases -- only a little more serious than an average flu season.

"The first influenza pandemic of the 21st century is considerably less lethal than was feared in advance," England's chief medical officer Liam Donaldson wrote in the study carried out by his team at the government's Health Protection Agency.