How many people have actually been affected by the swine flu? #swineflu
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Overall, there appear to have been 20 known cases of swine flu within the United States, as per report by the CDC:
U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection State # of laboratory
confirmed cases
California 7 cases
Kansas 2 cases
New York City 8 cases
Ohio 1 case
Texas 2 cases
TOTAL COUNT 20 cases
(for more detailed information check out the Center for Disease Control and Prevention website: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/investigation.htm#general).
A recent report (24 April 09) describes outbreaks in Mexico that may be related to swine influenza:
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_04_24/en/index.html
Since 2007, there have mainly been reported cases of swine flu contracted by humans in the United States and in Spain. For general information about the swine flu, please follow this link to a FAQ page by the WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/swine_flu/swineflu_qanda_20090425.pdf
There are many more links I found, however, I think the best way to find valid and accurate information on this topic is to search "swine flu" on www.webmd.com, www.cdc.gov, www.who.int.
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According to April 27th's Washington Post:
"As of last night, there had been 20 confirmed cases of swine flu in the United States, 19 in Mexico, and six in Canada."
But in Mexico "the infection is suspected of causing as many as 86 deaths and more than 1,300 illnesses"
So, in other words it is very uncertain. We know very little and will probably only get real numbers as people figure out what's really going on.
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@dbspringer Here is a google map that is kept up-to-date pretty well of known cases of the swine flu
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950&t=h&ll=40.780541,-91.230469&spn=45.147961,84.902344&z=4
So you have no problem...because it's not a pandemic..
I'm just trying to determine if this is a f'reals reason to be worried, or if people are just panicking over a bunch of hoopla.
Yeah, the problem is that it is still to early to say. It is getting a ton of media attention, but that hardly means anything.
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M$He claimed the virus – a contagious respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza is much more similar to the Spanish Flu than the feared H5N1 bird flu. 'It could be a similar death rate to back in 1918,' he said.
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M$This outbreak started in Mexico and has jumped from there to the U.S. with 2 in Kansas, 1 in California and 10 in New York confirmed cases.
Other locations that are affected are Canada, Spain and unconfirmed cases in the following countries: New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Britain and Israel who fell ill following travel to Mexico.
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