Tamiflu Please ?

It is 5th May 2009, and we are totally screwed. 27 dead, almost 1500 confirmed cases, is it time to panic yet? Not according to the World Health Service, who currently still have the alert level set on 5. However, the world is expecting it to rise to 6, and soon. Let's play the number game?

Currently there are 27 confirmed deaths:
- 26 in Mexico
- Still just 1 in the US
- 101 suspected deaths in Mexico

Tamiflu Please?: The massive rise to 1478 confirmed cases:
- 806 in Mexico
- 405 in the United States
- 140 in Canada
- 57 in Spain
- 28 in the UK
- 9 in Germany
- 6 in New Zealand
- 5 in Italy
- 4 in Israel and France
- 2 in South Korea and El Salvador
- 1 in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, Costa Rica, Portugal, Colombia and the Netherlands
- This means that there are confirmed cases in 21 countries, spanning 5 continents.
- The statistics on suspected cases have become much less reliable since Canada and Mexico have stopped reporting suspected cases. I am led to believe there are now about 4000 suspected cases, with over 800 of these probable, in 42 countries around the world.

If you are reading this and running a country, you might be interested to know that the World Health Organisation suggests you keep your borders open. Your welcome Gordon.

Quite possibly the worst newspaper in the whole of the UK, the Daily Mail, has published a story on a 12 year old, who thinks swine flu is like a cold? Idiot. Only a newspaper like the Daily Mail could print such rubbish, people are dying. Fact. I urge you to go against the theory that 12 year old's are always right and be at least slightly concerned about swine flu.

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I have a maths exam tomorrow, but I'll try to get an update in.

Stuart Wright
Swine Flu Daily