Caught your attention yet?

If you’re still not convinced about the severity of the Swine Flu, and you think you’re untouchable and this virus will simply kill itself and leave you alone — well there’s nothing much we at Geekie can do to convince you otherwise.

So we’ll leave it up to the government to do that. And boy they’re doing it geekie style.

The U.S. National Archives has put up an online exhibit on the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, an occurence that the Swine Flu is so often compared to. Here you’ll see the gravity of this aggressive virus through images, testimonials, and personal accounts. 40 to 100 million lives were claimed by the Spanish Flu. Though thankfully the Swine Flu is currentl nowhere near, the U.S. Government still advises to stay on your toes, and close your nose.

The Influenze Epidemic of 1918 Online Exhibit is right here.

Google is doing its share of helping to prevent a global pandemic. The swine flu is one serious matter. Some have even likened it to the Spanish outbreak in 1918, and even the SARS scare a couple of years back.

Who would’ve known that Google can actually help predict and control a growing pandemic? According to Google, there was a spike in “flu” searches in Mexico, even before news of the swine flu broke out. So meaning, a notable amount of people were afflicted by the same symptoms. Very smart use of search engine analytics, and very global-friendly.

This map, which tracks the peak in flu searches, may actually be used also to monitor actual flu activity. The Google Trends for flu in Mexico can be found here.