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Well... ok yes, this happened a while ago before we had modern medicines and such... but you can't kill a virus. Antibiotics are all well and good for bacterial infections, but not viral ones. If it got out of hand, they'd have to try antiviral therapy on people to get rid of it, and that's if they can catch it fast enough. There are only a few kinds in use right now... a few for strands of herpes and a few for HIV. Unfortunately, they're not interchangable, so they'd have to come up with one that specifically targets this new flu virus. By the way, it takes years to synthesize an effective virus therapy. Even if our current medicinces worked on it (which they won't), you realistically can only initiate antiviral therapies in so many people (limited supply)- and that's if you can catch them all before they spread to even more people.
Just thought i'd toss that in there.
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