Analysis - Flu threat to economy mostly in the mind for now

PARIS (Reuters) - One of the few certainties about the H1N1 swine flu virus is that it would have to turn much deadlier than it seems right now to cause a major drop in global economic output.

A renewed rash of media headlines suggests the virus, the subject of a World Health Organisation (WHO) pandemic alert since June 11, could deliver the next big blow to the global economy. But there is no reason to take that for granted and experience shows the impact could just as easily be limited.