The Swine Flu Facts

AP reports:

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico reported three new deaths from the swine flu epidemic Saturday and urged citizens not to let their guard down against a virus that has killed 19 in people in Mexico and is spreading across Asia and Europe.
Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said Mexico’s confirmed swine flu cases jumped to [...]

WHO update of A(H1N1) infected numbers

LiveScience.com reports:
 
There will be about 1,700 U.S. cases of the new H1N1 flu, aka “swine flu,” in the next four weeks under a worst-case scenario, according to a research team’s new simulations. 
And a second team working independently, about 200 miles away, on exactly the same question came up with a similar forecast.
 
As of Thursday, there [...]

Associated Press reports: 
 
MEXICO CITY – A top Mexican medical officer accused the World Health Organization of being slow to respond to the country’s warning about a health crisis that turned into a global swine flu scare. The WHO disputed the claim.
Hong Kong’s leader said Friday the territory has a confirmed case of swine flu, Asia’s first. Besides Mexico and [...]

AP reports: 
 
MEXICO CITY – Mexico’s top health official said Thursday the number of new swine flu cases is stabilizing in the nation at the epicenter of the outbreak. Health secretary Jose Angel Cordova told a news conference he hoped the trend will continue and that a vaccine would be available in six months. European health ministers [...]

Yahoo reports:
 
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico first noticed a strange new flu virus after a woman died in the southern state of Oaxaca on April 13, but investigators are far from discovering the origin of an outbreak that has spread throughout the world.
Possible cases of the new H1N1 swine flu have been found in several locations in [...]

Swine influenza (aka flu) is a contagious respiratory disease that affects, and has common outbreaks with, pigs. It is caused by a type-A influenza virus. The current Swine strain that it has the WHO at a pandemic alert 4, appears to be new with a variation of the H1N1 virus – a mix of human [...]