Swine Flu will continue to kill in summer, fall and winter warns CDC as New York deaths reach 52
WHO shipping out Tamiflu. Now Denmark finds Tamiflu resistant strain of Swine Flu
The United States Centers for Disease Control is warning of continuing deaths and sickness throughout summer, fall and winter as it reported 52 people had died in New York State while the country-wide death toll in the U.S. mounted to 211.
“Given ongoing novel H1N1 activity to date, CDC anticipates that there will be more cases, more hospitalizations and more deaths associated with this pandemic in the United States over the summer and into the fall and winter,” said the CDC, a premier agency of the U.S. California has 31 deaths from Swine Flu.
“The novel H1N1 virus, in conjunction with regular seasonal influenza viruses, poses the potential to cause significant illness with associated hospitalizations and deaths during the U.S. influenza season,” CDC said as it reported 37,246 confirmed cases in the U.S.
Canada’s death toll from novel Swine Flu virus continues to swell with 37 people now confirmed dead and 878 hospitalized, some with acute respiratory distress.
New government figures show 14 died in Quebec, 13 in Ontario, 5 in Manitoba, 3 in Saskatchewan and 2 in Alberta. The total lab confirmed case count is now at 9,229. Extrapolation of the rate at which labs catch swine flu in people would suggest between 100,000 to 200,000 actual cases nationwide.
Central and South America are facing an escalating death toll from Swine Flu as the global tally of fatalities approaches 500.
Argentina has shut down all schools and universities to combat the spread of Swine Flu which has killed 60 people so far.
Health authorities from across Argentina held a meeting to discuss how to handle the health emergency, according to Argentine news agency TELAM. Argentina said after the meeting that it is trying to determine how to stop the spread of the virus.
Swine Flu is spreading like wild-fire through Central and South America and Argentina’s minister of health estimates his country now has 107,000 cases of the novel virus and 60 confirmed deaths.
Other Central and South American countries are also reporting deaths: Brazil 1, Chile 14, Colombia 2, Costa Rica 3, Dominican Republic 2, Guatemala 2, Honduras 1, Paraguay 1, Uruguay 4
The World health Organization reported 94512 global cases and 429 deaths. These figures are expect to mount when new data is released by the U.S. CDC and Canada. The actual count of people infected globally could be as high as 2 million since only about 1 in 20 cases are reported through lab testing.
Swine Flu has killed 44 people in New York and 21 in California as the United States Centers for Disease Control provided a new tally that shows the nation-wide death toll from the novel virus stands at 170.
The CDC said 33,902 infections of Swine Flu were confirmed.
British Health Secretary Andy Burnham warned parliament that authorities expect to have 100,000 cases of Swine Flu per day towards the end of August.
“Cases are doubling every week, and on this trend we could see over 100,000 cases a day by the end of August, but I stress this is only a projection,” Burnham told the House of Commons.
Danish authorities have reported the first case of Tamiflu resistant strain of the Swine Flu virus. Tamiflu was billed as the primary anti-viral medication but the Danish discovery of resistant virus in a patient now casts doubt on how effective the medication will be. A second case of Tamiflu resistant virus was detected in Japan.
Authorities in B.C. report a continuing growth in Swine Flu activity with lab tests in recent days showing a majority of flu like symptom are being caused by the novel H1N1 virus.
Australia is reporting 5298 cases and ten deaths. New Zealand has 1059 cases and three deaths.
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