Honestly, your risks of being killed by a lightning strike in the last five years are about 2,300 percent higher than your risk of contracting and dying from the swine or bird flu. No joke! Worldwide in only one year (2004), more than 1,170 people died from lighting strikes; and just to keep this in perspective, it appears that the regular flu, not the swine flu, has killed 13,000 in the US since January, (although there is also strong endorsement that these figures are grossly exaggerated in order to increase vaccine sales). Who stands to benefit from a massive global panic about a supposedly deadly disease, the Swine Flu? Yup, you guessed it, the pharmaceutical companies.