I had swine flu two weeks ago, symptoms almost the same normal flu.
I just stayed in for five days,none of my family caught it from me.
Locally hundreds of people have caught it and in nearly all the cases only one person in the family be it child or adult has had it in each household.
It seems that it is only dangerous for people that are already suffering from serious conditions.
Every winter 20,000 people in the UK die from the normal flu, their is nothing the government likes better than to have us all living in fear :- be it terrorism, bird flu, foot and mouth,communism,the bomb etc etc
feel free to add all the other media/government panics over the past few years