The World Health Organization now seems more interested in the spread of the H1N1 virus than exactly how many people in a region are infected. In a posting on its web page the WHO says countries with community-wide transmission of pandemic H1N1 2009 infection are no longer required to submit regular reports of individual laboratory-confirmed cases. Still countries newly affected by the virus should report first-confirmed cases and weekly aggregated case numbers.
According to WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl Argentina, with 137 deaths since June, has surpassed Mexico where the epidemic began in February as the country with the second-largest number of H1N1 Influenza deaths. Mexico has 121; the United States, with a much larger population, has 211. The last WHO update issued July 6 showed 94,512 confirmed cases in 122 countries with 429 deaths.
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