New H1N1 Swine Flu Death in Costa Rica 615 New H1N1 Swine Flu Cases Overnight In US

Another death from Swine Flu H1N1 has been reported, this time outside of North America, where all H1N1 Swine Flu deaths have so far taken place. The United States has had 2 deaths from h1N1 Swine Flu, Canada reports 1 death from H1N1 Swine Flu, and Mexicao reports 45 Swine Flu H1N1 Virus deaths.

Costa Rica reported the death of a 53-year-old patient with swine flu on Saturday, the first death from the epidemic outside of a North American nation, while Japanese authorities scrambled to limit contacts with their first confirmed cases of the disease.

Worldwide: 3440 cases
United States: 2254 total cases of Swine Flu H1N1 flu, 2 deaths, 44 states have H1N1 Swine Flu Infections. The number of cases in the United States went from 1,639 to 2,254, with 104 people hospitalized, between Friday and Saturday afternoon.

First US Death From H1N1 Swine Flu

The first ever US resident has died of Swine Flu H1N1 Virus, said health authorities in Texas this afternoon.

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).