There is now 1,011 deaths but the flu is still 30 times that for deaths. I guess you are right, the flu is a bigger issue than this. There is too much speculations right now and too many differing stories about where it came from and the amount of people and deaths or it could be updates at different times. I guess this is getting much more media attention because it spread to many different countries and it's a new flu strain sars, mers now corona. This sin't the greatest killer in other countries but I guess this is an epidemic in China as they haven't faced something like this since SARS. Compared to 35,000,000 infected to right about 40,000+ there is a big difference.