Late April 2009, there has been a growing concern by people all around the world about the swine flu virus. With the shocking death toll in Mexico and increasing number of confirmed cases in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Israel and Spain the probability of a pandemic happening becomes increasingly real. The [...]

 
 
Every day, stories of newly identified cases of swine flu or influenza A(H1N1) appear in the newspapers. To what extend has the disease spread? You will find below a summary of confirmed cases and deaths for each country around the world. The cases were confirmed based on laboratory tests while the statistics were obtained from [...]

The World Health Organisation has six (6) phases of preparedness for swine flu ((or Influenza A(H1N1)):
Phase 1 – No new reports of animal viruses infecting humans
Phase 2 – Animal virus known to have infected humans
Phase 3 – Sporadic outbreaks in people. But no sustained community level human-to-human infection
Phase 4 – Community-level human-to-human outbreaks. “Significant increase [...]

Quick facts about the swine flu virus:

On 30 April 2009, the World Health Orgainsation raised the alert for swine flu to Phase Five, which means that a pandemic is imminent.
A pandemic is a situation where an infectious disease spreads throughout a population in a large region. Region may mean continents, or even globally.
The swine flu could [...]