Just must love the last line of the quote below that this non-pandemic... pandemic... would inevitably kill some people, just like seasonal flu. (kills a whole lot of people)

We've seen a scare/crisis that never developed.

One day folks will get weary and tired of this old "tragedy/crisis" routine.

REUTERS

FLU VIRUS KILLS TEXAN, EUROPEAN CASES RISE

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A Texan with H1N1 flu died earlier this week, state officials said, only the second death outside Mexico where the epidemic appeared to be waning.

Health officials said the outbreak seemed to be slowing in the country hardest-hit by the virus but the World Health Organisation gave a different picture for Europe.

There, the virus was still spreading and WHO laboratories confirmed more infections in Britain, Spain, Italy and Germany -- taking the U.N. agency's toll on Wednesday to 1,516 officially reported cases in 22 countries.

The bulk of these remain in North America.

The WHO confirmed 822 infections and 29 deaths in Mexico, and 403 infections and one death in the United States.

Its tally, which lags national reports but carries more scientific weight, includes a Mexican toddler who died in Texas last week but not the later death of the Texan woman in her 30s who U.S. health officials said had chronic health problems.

They predicted the virus known as swine flu -- actually a mix of pig, human and bird flu elements -- would spread and inevitably kill some people, just like seasonal flu.