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UPDATE: Swine flu cases worldwide
By The Associated Press
May 3, 2009 | 7:01 p.m. CDT
Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:
- Deaths: 19 confirmed in Mexico and one confirmed in U.S., a toddler from Mexico who died in Texas.
- Confirmed sickened worldwide, 934: 506 in Mexico; 242 in U.S.; 101 in Canada; 40 in Spain; 18 in Britain; eight in Germany; four in New Zealand; two in Italy, France, Israel, and South Korea; one each in Colombia, Costa Rica, Ireland, Switzerland, Austria, Hong Kong, Denmark and the Netherlands.
- U.S. confirmed cases from CDC or states: New York 63; Texas 43; California 26; Arizona 18; South Carolina 15; Delaware 10; Louisiana, seven; Massachusetts seven; New Jersey seven; Colorado four; Florida three; Indiana three; Illinois three; Ohio three; Oregon three; Virginia three; Wisconsin three; Connecticut two; Kansas two; Michigan two; Missouri two; and one each in Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Utah.
- More U.S. school closings announced, including all 24 schools in a district west of Detroit after a high school student came down with an apparent case of the illness.
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says about a third of confirmed U.S. cases are people who had been to Mexico and likely picked up the infection there.
- Hong Kong, where severe acute respiratory syndrome killed 299 in 2003, ordered weeklong quarantine of downtown hotel where a Mexican tourist was confirmed to have the illness, trapping 350 guests and employees inside.
- Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa complained that China had isolated several Mexicans without reason — and urged Mexicans not to travel to China until the situation was resolved.
- Mexican officials will decide Monday whether to allow schools and businesses to reopen on Wednesday.
- World Health Organization said slaughtering pigs is unnecessary because the virus is being spread through humans, and it says a swine herd in Canada likely was infected by a farmworker who returned from Mexico.
- U.S. Meat Export Federation, which represents pork and beef interests abroad, estimates that U.S. pork exports have dropped about 10 percent since the swine flu scare started.