Special Report:
World Tackles A/H1N1
Flu
BEIJING, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The following are the latest developments of
A/H1N1 flu outbreaks worldwide on Sunday, according to the World Health
Organization and government data.
In a latest update, Mexico announced 19 confirmed deaths in the country.
Another 21-month-old boy was confirmed dead in the United States, first death
outside Mexico.
The confirmed infection cases have reached 777 worldwide, mainly including
454 in Mexico and 184 in the U.S.
In addition, 16 countries and regions have reported laboratory confirmed
cases with no deaths, including Austria (1), Hong Kong, China (1), Denmark (1),
Netherlands (1), Ireland (1), France (1), Costa Rica (1), Italy (1), Switzerland
(1), South Korea (1), Israel (2), New Zealand (4), Germany (6), Spain (15),
Britain (15) and Canada (85).
Due to the high risk of a pandemic caused by the A/H1N1 virus, the World
Health Organization (WHO) said there is still the possibility to raise the alert
level to Phase 6 from the current Phase 5.
Also on Saturday, Canada confirmed the world's first case of human-to-pig
transmission of the A/H1N1 flu virus while urging against any ban of its
products.
Some pigs in a farm in the western province of Alberta has been found
infected with the H1N1 flu virus and the virus may have jumped from a farm
worker to the animals, Brian Evans, with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency,
told a press conference in Ottawa.
In a latest development, Yonhap reported another probable case of the
A/H1N1 flu. But the case needs further confirmation.
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