Mexico has reported 75 deaths, the U.S. 10, and one in both Canada and Costa Rica.
SHOOT: When this virus mutates the numbers will instantly skyrocket.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Swine flu forced Christina Huitron to make a choice no mother should ever have to make.
On Wednesday she told doctors to take her 21-year-old son off life support, making Marcos Sanchez the nation's 10th fatality associated with the newly discovered virus that continues to spread across the globe.
"I knew he was suffering," Christina Huitron told KSL-TV. "I don't know how he was feeling, but I just knew I had to do it because he was passing away slowly anyways, and I didn't want him to suffer anymore."
Swine flu has sickened more than 11,000 people in 41 countries and killed 85, according to the World Health Organization, whose figures often trail those of individual countries. Mexico has reported 75 deaths, the U.S. 10, and one in both Canada and Costa Rica.
But experts said closing schools once students were already ill would do little to halt the virus' seemingly inexorable spread.
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