Over the past few weeks, people have been going crazy over the news that the H1N1 flu virus (which you may also know as the swine flu virus) is spreading across the globe. When the swine flu virus started appearing in Mexico, it killed a significant amount of people (many of who were previously healthy young adults). While swine flu has continued to spread throughout the world (appearing in everywhere from the United States to Australia), it’s percentage of fatalities have decreased significantly. I brought this issue up because it is hard for me to figure out why people continue to be extremely worried about swine flu when it is proving to be much less serious than initially believed. Since the panic level of people around the world has failed to decline (although there is every reason for them to worry less), countries are still taking a hard stance on swine flu.

Even though it doesn’t seem like the concerns over the H1N1 virus are going anywhere soon, I am still planning on taking a vacation this summer. Because I have taken a trip during the last couple of summers, I already have plans to spend a week and a half in London with one of my good friends. Since I have already taken care of booking my hotel room, Euston station car rental and flight, it would take something much more serious than this current swine flu issue for me to cancel my whole trip. Fortunately, since there is still some time until my trip starts, I’m hoping people will have calmed down about swine flu and moved on to the next thing that the media is making a big deal out of!