Status: Confirmed

Since yesterday the amount of confirmed cases world-wide has risen rapidly. It is with this news that I welcome you to the 3rd May 2009 update of Swine Flu Daily. I have had almost 200 views in 3 days which is great. Thanks to everybody and anybody that has been reading. I have also been playing with hyperlinks that are this colour. Anyone up for some numbers?

All numbers are correct according to Wikipedia @ 13:45 GMT+1; BST.

We now have 20 deaths world-wide:
- 19 in Mexico
- 1 in the United States
- 101 more suspect deaths in Mexico

Status: Confirmed. There are 872 confirmed cases world-wide:
- 506 in Mexico
- 222 in the United States
- 85 in Canada
- 20 in Spain
- 15 in the UK
- 6 in Germany
- 4 in New Zealand
- 2 in France
- 1 in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, South Korea, Ireland, Costa Rica, Italy and the Netherlands
- This means that there are confirmed cases in 18 countries, spanning 4 continents.
- There are now over 4000 suspected cases, with over 500 of these probable, in 43 countries around the world.

Some of the world is in panic about swine flu, I urge everyone not to panic, it will not help anything. This picture clearly shows the panic happening on Twitter. My blog is hosted here, we have a poll and a nice new button at the top right that allows you to easily tell your friends on social networking sites. I want you to not click the Google Ads, if you do I get money.

See you all tomorrow, with all the friends you have told, with a new update, as promised.

Stuart Wright
Swine Flu Daily