[-luke]

It's not flu... Flu will continue to recycle itself every year, sometimes worse sometimes better from one year to the next.

We are hit less severely by flu because we produce vaccines based on Australian flu strains from previous year which proves mostly effective in staving off the worst for the majority of people.

If anything the media have downplayed the outbreak in China and Italy. Might be political and might not... But the world health organisation does not declare a global pandemic on a whim.

I would probably lean towards the WHO for my facts than football fans writing this off as nothing more serious than a headcold. It is serious, and its probably time we all treated it as such.