As many as 10 or 15 people in the USA [that's definitely pandemic!] might die needlessly before a swine flu vaccine is ready in October ...

Above: Guilty Pig (you can see it in his eyes).

The Washington Post, May 29, 2009.

A U.S. health official said that a swine flu vaccine could be available as early as October, but only if production and testing run smoothly throughout the summer.

There have been more than 8,500 probable and confirmed cases in the United States [what on earth does that mean ... "probable" and "confirmed"!?].

Meanwhile, health officials in an Illinois county said that a 42-year-old man has died from complications of swine flu. Apparently the unfortunate victim had other medical problems as well [which seems to be the case in all swine flu-related deaths].

The man is the third person in the state to die from swine flu.

[In the USA alone, around 33,000 people die from gun shot wounds every year. So far this year there have been approximately 5,297 drunk driving deaths in America. Between 92,130 and 100,588 people - civilians and soldiers - have been killed in Iraq since the war began ... and that's a very conservative estimate. Swine flu is the least of our problems!]