EvERyBoDy PaNiC!!!

It's official: At least one person in the United States has died of swine flu.

If you're like me and didn't really hear about this thing until it showed up on your yahoo! homepage, this really came out of nowhere.

This wasn't like the avian flu, which crept up on us for months and ultimately fell flat. We just fell right into the midst of this thing. And that's probably good because we're skipping all the mask-wearing paranoia and it's actually an issue.

It's gotten so bad that Texas has stopped playing sports. And they freaking love sports down there.

Will this be the pandemic that we hear about every year? It seems like the most legitimate threat since... last year.

-Nick O'Malley