I am following the news about it, in google maps
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...8,329.0625&z=1you can follow it also, i didnt know the first case was on 30 marz 2009. A big outbreak can be possible with the swine flu, we had more big out breaks of flu worldwide, i believe the worse was the spanish flu that time.
Spanish flu in 1918 (between the 20 million to 100 million deaths)
Aziatische flu in 1956 (about 1 million deaths)
Hongkong flu in 1900 and 1968 (about 1 Million deaths)