Difference is to get AIDS you need to have some fairly serious contact with somebody who has HIV. To get this you just need to be near somebody with it.

Yeah, I know. The difference is that aids affects you for life. At least if you get swine flu, you'll be out of your misery. But most peole have been cured of it, right?

You're not really afraid of something similar to the Spanish flu outbreak?  If my memory serves me correct (please correct me if I'm wrong), with the influenza virus, you are capable of transmitting it to another human 8-12 hours after you have contracted the virus.  You will then be in an highly contagious time period for the next 12 hours before finally showing initial symptoms.  After you start to show symptoms you could have given the virus to several people without even knowing it. 

Also, some estimate for the spanish flu put the death toll close to 100 million people world wide (in the 2 or 3 years it was around), with an estimated 40% death rate in young adults.

Now this current flu outbreak isn't sounding as serious as the spanish flu outbreak, but with the spead that virus evolve and almost freely swap genetic material would put the possibility of this strain mutating into something deadly at something >0%.

There isn't anything to fear right now, but very serious problems can occur if the divergent strains mix together creating a very deadly version.

How do you get cured of a flu virus?  Most people's bodies will destroy the infected cells, this often results in the bodies T cells eating away at your lungs lining, thus causing you to get pnuemonia.  Then there is also a possibility where a virus can cause your immune system to go into hyperactive attack mode, resulting in death in almost every possible treatment option (similar to the spanish flu).

Perfect song for this thread, lol, could only find a live version on youtube

But it's nothing like the black death though?

^lol not even close. It is pretty much just a worse version of the flu.

As in death rate?  The black death is a totally different thing than this.

Does a new strain of influenza have the chance getting a death rate up there with the black plague? Yes

Does this current spread of H1N1 seem as deadly as the spanish flu/black death/etc.? Doesn't appear to be.

Should we be concerned about the spread? Yes, it very easily could mutate or have a risk of antigenic shift creating a deadly strain well adapted to humans.  (i.e. this strain jumps back to pigs/birds and takes on characteristics of a deadly flu virus)

i know 10 people with it...

Are you mexican in disguise?