With school starting back up again this past week and many new reports about the H1N1 flu virus popping up all over the country, many people are asking the simple question "should we be worried?". The White House has just recently put out a statement predicting anywhere between 30,000 - 90,000 deaths during this upcoming flu season due to this strain of the virus and the WHO (World Health Organization) is expecting an "explosion" of H1N1 cases world wide considering the new upcoming flu season. But what is the big difference between this strain of the flu and the normal virus? Every year we lose up to about 40,000 people to the normal strain of the flu virus, but most of them are young children (under 5) or elderly citizens (over 65), but the H1N1 virus has been known to target more young adults and teenagers than normal ...

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