Swine deaths pass 7000 mark, now world's most dominant flu

SHOOT: This 7000+ figure excludes around 70 people who died recently in the Ukraine, and is based on official news reports. This means the true number is already much greater.
I watch the stats regularly and Africa's have remained constant for the past 3-4 weels. 91 deaths, 0% increase. Every other region in the world records increases. Really?

clipped from www.google.com WHO: Swine flu virus is top strain worldwide LONDON — The World Health Organization's flu chief said the swine flu virus has now become the predominant flu strain worldwide. "We remain quite concerned about the patterns that we're seeing," Fukuda said during a press briefing Thursday. He said the swine flu virus appeared to be fairly stable, and that samples from around the world remained very similar to when the virus was first identified in April. Regarding the recent surge of cases in the Ukraine — which has reported more than 250,000 cases and 70 deaths of people with flu-like illness in recent weeks — Fukuda said the virus appeared no different there than anywhere else. "We just simply have to understand that influenza can cause outbreaks in very large numbers of people," he said. "Patterns can be quite different from country to country." On Wednesday, Venezuelan officials reported that swine flu had hit the Yanomami Indians, killing seven people in a population of 28,000.