Ouch!

This is looking bad. 9th May 2009 update will start.. NOW! Words from Obama later. Of course we need the latest statistics 1st. These are not suitable for persons of nervous disposition.

Ouch! Now there are 52 people dead:
- 48 in Mexico
- 2 in the US
- 1 in Canada
- 1 in Costa Rica

Ouch! Now there are 4395 confirmed cases:
- 2316 in the United States
- 1626 in Mexico
- 243 in Canada
- 95 in Spain
- 47 in the UK
- 12 in France
- 11 in Germany
- 9 in Italy
- 7 in Israel and New Zealand
- 6 in Brazil
- 3 in the Guatemala, Japan, the Netherlands and South Korea
- 2 in El Salvador, Norway and Panama
- 1 in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Guatemala, Hong Kong, Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland.
- This means that there are confirmed cases in 29 countries, spanning 5 continents.
- There are suspected cases or confirmed cases in 42 countries.
- All the numbers are from Wikipedia, correct at 22:30 GMT+1, BST.

Obama has made a huge U-turn today. Telling people that swine flu is of concern after 1st telling people to not be concerned by swine flu at all. I'm glad to see he has clearly been following my advice, as well as the advice of other professionals. The story from the BBC can be seen here.

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Stuart Wright
Swine Flu Daily