The Swine Flu Facts

MSNBC reports:

As the first influenza pandemic in 41 years has spread during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter over the past few months, the United States and other northern countries have been racing to prepare for a second wave of swine flu virus.
At the same time, international health authorities have become increasingly alarmed about the new virus’s [...]

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 [...]

AP reports: 
 
LONDON – Flu experts are looking very closely at Britain — and some have decided that the U.K.’s swine flu-fighting tactics are seriously off the mark and may be hiding a much larger outbreak.
Since Britain has the most confirmed swine flu cases in Europe, how the outbreak develops here will have a significant influence on whether the World [...]

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 [...]

AP reports:
HARLINGEN, Texas – This week should have been a joyous time for Judy Trunnell, a 33-year-old schoolteacher who had just given birth to a healthy baby girl.
But the friends and relatives whose cars lined the quiet street in front of her home in a quiet subdivision Tuesday instead were mourning her, the first American [...]

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 [...]

AP reports:
 
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The swine flu epidemic spread deeper into the United States, Europe and Latin America – and in Canada, back to pigs – even as Mexico’s health chief hinted Sunday it may soon be time to reopen businesses and schools in the nation where the outbreak likely began.
The virus spread to [...]

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 [...]