Many people were worried about bird flu, but it didn't happen. Not yet anyway.
But for Singaporeans who went through the hell of SARS and for folks in Negeri Sembilan who went through the deaths of the Nipah virus, they know exactly how people in Mexico and parts of USA and Canada feel right now.
1998 Nipah = 105 died in Malaysia.
2003 SARS = 33 died in Singapore (Worldwide 774).
2003-n0w Bird flu = 115 Indonesia, Thailand 17 (Worldwide 257).
2009 Swine flu - Tidak akan datang (Our joint prayers/Doa kita bersama).
1918: The Spanish flu pandemic remains the most devastating outbreak of modern times - infecting up to 40 people of the world's population and killing more than 50 million people, with young adults particularly badly affected
1957: Asian flu killed two million people. Caused by a human form of the virus, H2N2, combining with a mutated strain found in wild ducks. The elderly were particularly vulnerable
1968: An outbreak first detected in Hong Kong, and caused by a strain known as H3N2, killed up to one million people globally, with those over 65 most likely to die
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