[dawn53]

If you do the math, the death toll is extremely low, .0189%

[Kartographer]

Do the math, even if it doesn't kill can you imagine what would happen to a country's social, business, and governmental infrastructure if suddenly say 5% of your population came down with a such a serve form of the flu with one third needing to be hospitialized?
The real thing though that concerns me is it seems that a large precentage of the deaths seem to be medical professionals, if true that would put 'another monkey in the wrench'.