Over the last couple of months, some diseases gained notoriety, epidemics were announced by global media and the world experienced widespread panic.

Even as you read this, we know you are thinking of ebola, the deadly tropical disease which broke out in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea and according to United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), killed around 9,365 people worldwide.

But there is another disease, which has killed over 585 in India in 2015 alone, yet it is surprisingly under-reported, with almost no real-time reporting being done and limited media coverage.
The last time this virus struck in a major way was in 2009, when it became a pandemic and killed around 2,03,000 people worldwide. This is the H1N1 virus or the infamous swine flu.

Ebola is scary. It kills more than half of those infected and has a high fatality rate. But it can be transmitted only if the person has been in physical contact with an infected individual.

Swine flu, on the other hand, is highly contagious and communicable.

You had think, by now, that people would be talking about swine flu more, informing others and spreading awareness about this disease.