> People need assurance that this is a nasty flu, not the plague. The deadliest epidemic in history was a nasty flu (the 1918 Spanish flu). That killed around

> People need assurance that this is a nasty flu, not the plague. The deadliest epidemic in history was a nasty flu (the 1918 Spanish flu). That killed around 50 million people. This virus appears to be at least 100X deadlier than the endemic seasonal flu.