“We are now seeing a rising tide of flu in many parts of New York City,” said New York City Health Commissioner Thomas R. Frieden earlier Sunday.

“With the virus spreading widely, closing these and other individual schools will make little difference in transmission throughout New York City, but we hope will help slow transmission within the individual school communities.”

An New York middle school assistant principal who was hospitalized with the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, died Sunday apparently from flu complications, a hospital spokesman said.

H1N1 Swine Flu Updates

As of 06:00 GMT, 13 May 2009, 33 countries have officially reported 5728 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.

Mexico has reported 2059 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 56 deaths. The United States has reported 3009 laboratory confirmed human cases, including three deaths. Canada has reported 358 laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death. Costa Rica has reported eight laboratory confirmed human cases, including one death.

The following countries have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths – Argentina (1), Australia (1), Austria (1), Brazil (8), China (3, comprising 1 in China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and 2 in mainland China), Colombia (6), Cuba (1), Denmark (1), El Salvador (4), Finland (2), France (13), Germany (12), Guatemala (3), Ireland (1), Israel (7), Italy (9), Japan (4), Netherlands (3), New Zealand (7), Norway (2), Panama (29), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Republic of Korea (3), Spain (98), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), Thailand (2), and the United Kingdom (68).

1639 confirmed cases of Swine Flu H1N1 virus.
2 Deaths
43 states have infections.
This is the hard news delivered by the normally conservative CDC today, Friday, May08 2009. The United States now has more H1N1 Swine Flu than any other country. The number of H1N1 Swine Flu virus infections in the United States doubled. Only mexico has more deaths from swine flu H1N1 Virus than the United States.

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The CDC is now estimating that the number of cases worldwide of H1N1 Swine flu could reach 1 billion cases by the summer. Normally, the summer is the time when influenza virii have the most problems reproducing and spreading, but apparently the H1N1 Swine Flu shares more traits than was previously thought with the 1918 Swine Flu H1N1 Pandemic. That Swine Flu strian was also more resistant to heat, and therefore was able to spread unabated during the summer months.

The World Health Organization said Thursday that up to 2 billion people could be infected by swine flu if the current outbreak turns into a pandemic. The agency said a pandemic typically lasts two years.

WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the number wasn’t a prediction, but that experience with flu pandemics showed one-third of the world’s population gets infected.

“If we do move into a pandemic then our expectation is that we will see a large number of people infected worldwide,” Fukuda said. “If you look at past pandemics, it would be a reasonable estimate to say perhaps a third of the world’s population would get infected with this virus.”

The H1N1 Swine Flu is though to be on the decline right now in North America, where it is currently most prevalent – but based on past Swine Flu or H1N1 Flu infections, there will be multiple waves of the Flu, with varying levels of danger. Curreently the H1N1 Swine flu is invading South America, where it is prime flu season, sparking fears that the Swine Flu H1N1 Virus may mutate further and come back to North America later this year in a more virulent, contagious and dangerous form.

In a statement, the Texas Department of State Health services said it was “reporting the first death of a Texas resident with H1N1 [swine] flu.

“A woman from Cameron County who had chronic underlying health conditions died earlier this week,” it said.

It is the second swine flu fatality outside Mexico, after a Mexican toddler died of the virus in the US in April.

Swine Flu H1N1 experts and health authorities predict that every state in the US will has some cases and that its possible for fatalities to grow quickly as secondary waves of the H1N1 Swine Flu return from the southern hemisphere, which is just entering its main flu season.

21 countries
1490 cases h1n1 swine flu

The following countries have reported laboratory confirmed cases with no deaths – Austria (1), Canada (140), China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (1), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Denmark (1), El Salvador (2), France (4), Germany (9), Ireland (1), Israel (4), Italy (5), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (6), Portugal (1), Republic of Korea (2), Spain (57), Switzerland (1) and the United Kingdom (27).

H1N1 Swine Flu Virus Cases Jump Quickly

The number of confirmed swine flu cases worldwide has increased to 1,490 with 30 deaths, most of them in Mexico, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. It marks an increase of 405 cases and four deaths since Monday.

These large, fast increases in H1N1 Virus cases and Swine Flu death counts are to be expected as the secondary and third waves of the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus begin their sweep across the world.

Besser said the CDC was even reconsidering the strategy of closing schools where cases turn up. More than 500 U.S. schools have been closed because of outbreaks.

Schools are closed to protect children, and to keep children from being “amplifiers” who spread an infection in the community. But this virus is looking to be as mild as seasonal flu, which only rarely kills children.

“We are seeing over 700 probable cases in a total of 44 states,” Besser said. So far, 99 percent of probable cases have, upon further testing, turned out to be the new H1N1 strain, Besser said.

“This likely represents an underestimation of the total number of cases across the United States,” Besser added, because most people with flu-like symptoms — fever, aching muscles and cough — are not even getting tested.

h1n1 virus shuts down mexico

Saturday : South Korea, Italy and the Irish Republic: most recent countries to confirm H1N1 Virus Swine Flu infections. In what may be a global first, Mexico has shut down for five days, starting may 1, to slow the spread of H1N1 Virus Swine flu. Only key services such as public transport, supermarkets and hospitals are being kept open.

h1n1 swine flu in the united states

Dr. Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the agency’s pandemic alert level to phase 5, one notch below a full-scale influenza pandemic, signaling that it’s time for all countries to get ready for a full-scale pandemic.

Here is an excerpt from WHO’s statement:

Based on assessment of all available information, and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

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h1n1 swine flu in the united states

The first death from Swine Flu H1N1 has been confirmed to be a direct result of Swine Flu H1N1 in Houston Texas. The swine flu virus has spread to 10 states.

According to the CDC/AP Service: Deaths: 160 Swine Flu Infection: 26 confirmed in Mexico, with up to 6,000 people suspected of being infected with H1N1 Swine Flu; 68 confirmed in U.S.; 13 confirmed in Canada; two confirmed in Scotland; 14 confirmed in New Zealand; two confirmed in Spain; and two confirmed in Israel. Confirmed U.S. cases, by state: 45 in New York, 13 in California, six in Texas, two in Kansas and one each in Indiana and Ohio, according to CDC and states. Keep in mind this information is based on public reports – the only true numbers are not available to the general public.

Arizona, Nevada, Massachusetts and Michigan now have confirmed swine-flu cases, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says. Number of confirmed U.S. cases: 91 and rising.