Flu can be pretty nasty, I'm more worried about the next flu pandemic than I am about bird flu. Pulled this from wikipedia as it was the easiest source;
Name of pandemic Date Deaths
Asiatic (Russian) Flu 1889-90 1 million possibly
Spanish Flu 1918-20 40 million
Asian Flu 1957-58 1 to 1.5 million
Hong Kong Flu 1968-69 0.75 to 1 million
Spanish Flu
Spanish flu
The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1. Many of its victims were healthy young adults, in contrast to most influenza outbreaks which predominantly affect juvenile, elderly, or otherwise weakened patients.
Note the last bit, "Many of its victims were healthy young adults" I should be OK then
Cheers,
Alan