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Flu News: Cases as of Friday morning, May 15

Friday, May 15, 2009
Marshall Democrat-News
As of 06:00 GMT, 15 May 2009, 34 countries have officially reported 7520 cases of influenza A(H1N1) infection.

Mexico has reported 2446 laboratory confirmed human cases of infection, including 60 deaths. The United States has reported 4298 laboratory confirmed human cases, including three deaths. Canada has reported 449 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), Belgium (1), Brazil (8), China (4), Colombia (10), Cuba (3), Denmark (1), El Salvador (4), Finland (2), France (14), Germany (12), Guatemala (3), Ireland (1), Israel (7), Italy (9), Japan (4), Netherlands (3), New Zealand (7), Norway (2), Panama (40), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Republic of Korea (3), Spain (100), Sweden (2), Switzerland (1), Thailand (2), and the United Kingdom (71).

Source: World Health Organization

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I also have heard this on Fox 4 and looked it up on their website. It states two confirmed cases in Saline County, an adult and a child.

-- Posted by kkmom on Sat, May 16, 2009, at 10:25 PM
Response by Eric Crump/Editor:
That's Saline County, Kansas.

So is Saline County immune to swine flu? We haven't heard anything from our local health department. Shouldn't the new administrator be all over the front page of the paper and even on the radio. We haven't heard a word from them. They recieve alerts directly from the MO Department of Health and Senior services so why don't they let us know what is going on. Thank goodness for the paper staff reaching out to the state level or we wouldn't know a thing. The new administrators should take a lesson from the former administrator-she never let us down! On Kansas City news 2 confirmed cases of swine flu in Saline County were reported. Is this true?

-- Posted by blsmith on Fri, May 15, 2009, at 6:02 PM
Response by Eric Crump/Editor:
The state Department of Health and Senior Services Web site is not reporting any confirmed cases from Saline County.

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