CDC estimates that from the 1976-1977 season to the 2006-2007 flu season, flu-associated deaths ranged from a low of about 3,000 to a high of about 49,000 people.
Deaths caused by flu are comprised mostly of old, and very sick people who can't fight any ailment in their frail condition. The number of deaths to the number who contract the flu any modern year is very small. That same number for Ebola is very high as it kills the young and strong with "boring" regularity. To equate the flu to Ebola is far from rational.
