My take on the swine flue: Both Charley and his brother came down with Swine Flue a few weeks back. Charley's brother got it first, went to doctor, wasn't in high risk group, wasn't given Tamiflu. Week goes by, flu is worse and he collapses and goes into coma. Spent 2 1/2 weeks in Intensive Care, almost dying. He is now having to be in a rehab hospital. Kidneys shut down, lost ability to speak, etc. he is doing much better now and should be released from Rehab by early next week. Charley on the other hand, came down with fever, etc on a Sunday evening, went to the doctor on Monday, got started on tamiflu right away. Found out 2 days later when blood tests came back that it was swine flu. His fever stopped by Wednesday and he was pretty much back to normal by Friday.
Just because you do not fall into high risk group, doesn't mean it can't be deadly. Thank goodness Ashley and I had our regular flu shots early and I think it had to help. We did lots of lysol and sterilization of everything around Charley while he was sick and neither of us came down with it.