Mexico flu toll rises to 60

June 13th, 2009 Death toll from Mexican day care fire rises to 46MEXICO CITY — A health official says the death toll from a day care center fire in northern Mexico has risen to 46 following the death of a toddler. Sonora state Health Secretary Raymundo Lopez Vocovich says the 3-year-old boy died Friday at a hospital in the central city of Guadalajara.

June 7th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The death toll in the day care centre fire in northwestern Mexico has risen to 31, authorities said Saturday. The fire broke out Friday afternoon at a tire depot in Hermosillo, the capital of Sonora state, and quickly spread to the neighbouring building housing ABC day care, part of the country's Social Security network.

May 21st, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The number of confirmed deaths from influenza A(H1N1) in Mexico has risen to 75, the health ministry said. The ministry said Wednesday that seven of the deaths took place after April 23, the day when the government ordered all educational institutions in the country closed.

May 19th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The number of confirmed deaths from influenza A (H1N1) in Mexico has risen to 70, with total confirmed infections by the virus reaching 3,646, the country's health ministry has said. 'Two deaths that took place on April 19 and May 13 in Mexico City were confirmed to be related to the A/H1N1 flu,' the ministry's statement said Monday.

May 16th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The toll in Mexico's swine flu outbreak has risen to 66, officials said Saturday. Till date 2,829 people have been infected with the influenza A(H1N1) virus, also called swine flu.

May 11th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The death toll in the heat wave sweeping across Orissa has risen to 31 Monday, an official said. 'The death toll due to heat wave has risen to 31,' Manoranjan Chaudhury, officer on special duty in the state revenue control room, told IANS.

May 6th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Orissa government Wednesday confirmed two more deaths due to sunstroke, which takes to 24 the heat wave toll in the state this summer. 'We have confirmed two more deaths due to sunstroke,' an official of the state revenue control room said, adding that the toll has risen to 24.

May 5th, 2009 KOLKATA - The toll in the hooch tragedy in West Bengal's East Midnapore district has risen to eight while 23 others are battling for their life in hospitals, police said Tuesday. 'These eight people died either in the Tamluk hospital or in Kolkata's S.S.K.M.

May 4th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government has said the swine flu outbreak has peaked in the country and is now in decline, with a confirmed human death toll of 22. Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova told reporters Sunday: 'The evolution of the epidemic is now in a phase of decline.' According to the latest data, 22 people have died of swine flu and 578 people have been infected with the virus.

May 4th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The death toll in an unprecedented heat wave in Orissa has risen to 22, officials here said Monday. The Met Department said that high temperatures were recorded in most parts of the state except the coastal belt that was a little cooler due to sporadic rain.

May 4th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The new variant of influenza A/H1N1, more commonly known as swine flu, has killed 22 people in Mexico, with 1,523 confirmed cases, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said late Sunday. Cordova Villalobos said the last victim of the new virus died Wednesday.

April 29th, 2009 Mexico City mayor: 1 more death, toll stabilizingMEXICO CITY — Mexico City's mayor says the swine flu outbreak seems to be stabilizing, with one more death since he spoke last. If the death toll keeps tapering off, he says he will consider easing the citywide shutdown.

April 29th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The toll in Mexico's suspected swine flu cases has risen to 159, said Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova. 'With the information available up to now, we can confirm that there are 159 deaths registered as suspect cases,' he told reporters late Tuesday.

April 28th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Mexico has ordered schools nationwide to shut down because of the ongoing swine flu epidemic, health secretary Jose Angel Cordoba said. The government Monday decided to extend an earlier order to close schools in some of the 32 states and the capital city to all schools nationwide.

January 15th, 2009 GAZA - The toll in the Israeli operation against the Hamas-led militant groups in the Gaza Strip has risen to 1,133, emergency officials said here Friday. Gaza emergency chief Mo'aweya Hassanein said three Islamist gunmen and three children were killed in separate Israeli attacks early Friday.