Good Mourning

Many more Mexican deaths today, it is 6th May 2009. H1N1, is it going to be the end of us all? There have been more Mexican deaths as well as another American death today.

I am 15. Today it emerged that the median age for swine flu cases in the US is 15. Should my year and I be worried? Probably! My maths exam was today, seems like an excuse to do some numbers?

Good Mourning:
- 42 dead in Mexico
- 2 dead in the US
- 100 more suspected deaths in Mexico

A sharp rise to 2267 confirmed cases around the world:
- 1112 in Mexico
- 831 in the United States
- 160 in Canada
- 81 in Spain
- 32 in the UK
- 9 in Germany
- 7 in France
- 5 in Italy and New Zealand
- 4 in Israel
- 2 in South Korea and El Salvador
- 1 in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Portugal, Colombia and the Netherlands
- This means that there are confirmed cases in 24 countries, spanning 5 continents.
- The statistics on suspected cases are now less reliable since Canada and Mexico have stopped reporting suspected cases. I am led to believe there are now over 4000 suspected cases, with over 800 of these probable, in 37 countries around the world.
- All figures are correct from Wikipedia, at 22:25 GMT+1, BST.

As I previously stated, my 1st exam was today. However, my exams that are approaching could be cancelled if WHO raises their alert level to 6. I'm quite sure that nobodies fingers around the country are crossed.

The alert level could still rise. In the UK, Ian Dalton, has been appointed the man in charge of the swine flu outbreak. He is being nicknamed the "Tsar of Swine Flu". Do we remember what happened to the last Tsar of Russia? He was killed. Are we tempting fate?

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Night night for now, but there will be an update tomorrow. Is that almost a week?

Stuart Wright
Swine Flu Daily