Swine flu infections rise to over 3,000 worldwide, says WHO

August 28th, 2009 WHO says swine flu down in Southern HemisphereGENEVA — The World Health Organization said Friday that swine flu infections are declining in the Southern Hemisphere as its seasonal flu period comes to an end and the pandemic shifts back north. Countries in the Northern Hemisphere that have already had one wave of swine flu should prepare for a second wave, which may be worse, the agency said.

August 11th, 2009 Presently deadly swine flu virus H1N1 is spreading quickly across India. The World Health Organisation already warned about the global swine flu pandemic possibility.

July 24th, 2009 WHO flu chief: No compromise on vaccine safetyGENEVA — The World Health Organization's flu chief says there must be no doubt over the safety of swine flu vaccines before they are given to the public. Keiji Fukuda says health officials and drug makers are looking into ways of speeding up the production of the vaccine before the northern hemisphere enters its flu season in the fall.

June 3rd, 2009 WHO: Swine flu cases worldwide near 20,000GENEVA — The World Health Organization says the number of swine flu cases worldwide has reached 19,273 after the United States reported over 1,000 new infections. WHO says the virus has been confirmed in 66 countries, with Egypt and Nicaragua the latest to report one case each.

May 22nd, 2009 GENEVA - The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that 41 countries have officially reported 11,168 cases of influenza A (H1N1), known also as swine flu, including 86 deaths. The US had 5,764 cases, with nine deaths, while Mexico had 3,892 infections, including 75 deaths.

May 18th, 2009 TOKYO - The number of new swine-flu infections in Japan rose to 130 Monday, the Kyodo News agency reported, citing its own calculations. Prime Minister Taro Aso told a government task force that he had no plans to call citizens to refrain from attending meetings or going out or to scale back business because of the spread of the A(H1N1) strain of the flu virus.

May 16th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Ecuador and Turkey have confirmed their first cases of swine flu infections. The number of countries affected by the swine flu in Latin America has risen to 12 after Ecuador reported its first infection Friday.

May 10th, 2009 SAN JOSE - Costa Rica has confirmed its first death from the influenza A(H1N1) virus, also called swine flu. The 53-year-old man died early Saturday after contracting the virus.

May 7th, 2009 GENEVA - The number of laboratory confirmed cases of infections of the new influenza A(H1N1) virus rose to 1,893 in 23 countries, the World Health Organization said. In a posting to its website late Wednesday, the health agency confirmed also a second death in the US, on top of 29 deaths in Mexico.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Two more cases of swine flu were diagnosed in Britain Thursday, bringing to 34 the number of confirmed infections with the influenza A (H1N1) virus. One of the new cases is a child at one of the five schools which have closed temporarily as a result of the infection, Health Secretary Alan Johnson said.

May 4th, 2009 BOGOTA - Colombia has confirmed its first case of infection by the influenza A(H1N1) virus, also known as swine flu. The victim, a 42-year-old man, had recently returned from Mexico.

May 3rd, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Mexican heath officials have raised the number of confirmed swine-flu deaths in the country to 19 after examining 1,303 cases, Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova has said. Cordova said 14 women and five men had died from the H1N1 flu strain, with most of the victims aged between 20 and 40 years.

May 2nd, 2009 SEOUL - South Korea Saturday reported its first human case of swine flu, a nun who had recently travelled to Mexico - taking to four swine-flu infection in Asia after one was confirmed in Hong Kong and two in Israel. The 51-year-old has been isolated in hospital since Tuesday after displaying flu symptoms after her return a week ago from the country worst-hit by the virus, the Korea Centre for Disease Control and Prevention said.

April 29th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - The number of confirmed swine flu infections in Mexico rose from 26 to 49, although the number of deaths was still at seven from the new strain of flu, according to laboratory results that Mexico's health authorities made public Wednesday. In total, there have been 159 deaths and 2,498 infections in Mexico's flu epidemic.

April 28th, 2009 MEXICO CITY - Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said late Monday that the number of people dying from an infection with the mutated swine flu virus rose slower than expected. Six people died on Saturday, five on Sunday and three Monday, Cordova said.