Wednesday, September 23, 2009

442 new H1N1-related deaths in past 1 week

Sept 21/9 Updates : Total Global H1N1 Cases: 344890 with 3718 deaths whereas WHO reported 296,471 H1N1 cases with 3,486 deaths.

Across the world, 442 new H1N1-related deaths have been reported during the past 7 days, the highest one-week death count since the third week of August. This figure represents an average of 63.1 deaths per day, and an increase of 11% over the week before. Brazil accounted for 40% of those deaths, with an astounding 176 new deaths this week, pushing them over the 1000-death mark. Fortunately for them, their Winter season has just come to an end, and perhaps their death rate will slow down as well. The second-most infected nation this week was India, who confirmed 66 new deaths, an increase of 35% since last week.

The United States (including Puerto Rico) had 59 new deaths this week. For the fourth straight week, California leads the list with 15 new deaths, while Florida confirmed 10 more. Addional deaths were reported in: TX (8), TN (4), MS (4), GA (3), NC (2), NM (2), NV (2), WA (2), AK (1), AZ (1), LA (1), MI (1), MO (1), OK (1). Puerto Rico also had 1 more swine flu death.

Elsewhere around the world, Colombia confirmed 20 new deaths for an increase of 44%, while South Africa confirmed 16 more, for an increase of 52%. 12 new deaths came out of Peru, and 11 came out of Thailand. Additional deaths were reported in the following countries: Mexico (9), Spain (6), Bolivia (6), Oman (5), Costa Rica (4), Dominican Republic (4), Australia (3), United Kingdom (3, French Territories (3), Canada (3), Vietnam (3), Taiwan (3), Hong Kong (3), South Korea (2), Japan (2), Malaysia (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Iran (2), El Salvador (2), Nicaragua (2), Netherlands (2), Greece (1), Italy (1), Israel (1), Norway (1), Kuwait (1), Yemen (1), Malta (1).

Mozambique announced their first and second swine flu deaths, while Luxembourg and Solomon Islands both announced their very first H1N1 deaths. -flucount.org