The Swine Flu Facts

AP reports: 
 
MEXICO CITY – No one has identified ground zero in the swine flu epidemic. Just where or when the new strain of influenza first jumped from a pig and began infecting people is a scientific mystery — one that a group of flu detectives is determined to solve.
Scientists are returning next week to La [...]

WHO reports: 
 
14 May 2009 – As of 06:00 GMT, 14 May 2009, 33 countries have officially reported 6497 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.
Mexico has reported 2446 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 60 deaths. The United States has reported 3352 laboratory confirmed human cases, including three deaths. Canada has reported 389 laboratory confirmed human cases, [...]

ap reports: 
 
MEXICO CITY – In China, mask-wearing police cordoned off more hotels Wednesday, quarantining anyone who came in contact with swine flu patients, no matter how mild their symptoms. Not so inMexico, where the health secretary encouraged tourists to come relax in their favorite vacation spots despite a growing swine flu caseload.
The global outbreak appears mild, but skittishness is [...]

WHO reports:
 
Influenza A(H1N1) – update 14
4 May 2009 – As of 18:00 GMT, 4 May 2009, 21 countries have officially reported 1085 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection.
Mexico has reported 590 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 25 deaths. The United States has reported 286 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death.
The following countries have [...]

Mexico claims swine flu (h1n1) is stabilizing, back on their feet.

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 [...]

AP reports:
 
HONG KONG – A Mexican tourist visiting Hong Kong has become Asia’s first confirmed swine flu case, authorities said Friday, as they quarantined about 300 people at a hotel where he stayed and began searching for those he may have contacted.
With memories of 2003’s deadly SARS outbreak still fresh, officials ordered the weeklong quarantine and treatment [...]

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 [...]

Group seeks to prevent needless slaughter of pigs as worldwide cases climb