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Actually, these two types of flu, swine flu (H1N1) and bird flu (H5N1), are equally dangerous. Both can cause illness and death in humans.

But if you asked the question, Which most danger, then the answer is bird flu.

Why? Because the percentage of bird flu mortality rate is as high as about 80%. This is the meaning of numbers, every hundred people are affected by bird flu, then about 80 people will die.

Fortunately the number of people with bird flu is relatively large. This can happen because bird flu is only transmitted from infected poultry to humans. Until now there has been no evidence of transmission from humans to other humans.

For swine flu, the percentage mortality of only about 6%. So every 100 people affected, there are six people who died. Very low when compared with the bird flu.

But the worrying thing is the spread of swine flu. The pattern of spread of this flu is very fast and took the lives of thousands of people. Cause, the swine flu virus is only transmitted from pigs to humans but also occurs transmitted from human to human.

Rapid deployment is never forced WHO to raise swine flu pandemic level to its highest level (6) in 2009.