Swine Flu Pandemic A(H1N1)

The number of deaths in a pandemic flu pigs, mark 1000 with 1154 deaths since the outbreak was in April, figures released on Wednesday the World Health Organization have shown.

Porcine influenza currently reaches 168 countries and territories, which said in its latest update on its website.

On 31 July, Azerbaijan, Gabon, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Monaco, Nauru, Swaziland, Suriname, and in the midst of laboratory confirmed cases of influenza A (H1N1).

A little more than a month later, on July 27, which reported 816 deaths worldwide.

The total number of laboratory-confirmed infections worldwide to 162,380, but that figure underestimated the number of individual cases, because they can no longer be considered or reported.

Most of the dead - 1008 - occurred in the Americas of WHO, with an emphasis on North and South America, as well as between Mexico and the United States, countries where the new A (H1N1)-pandemic strain emerged.

Sixty-five deaths in the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia and 39 in the western Pacific since the beginning has begun. Forty-one in Europe.

In comparison with seasonal flu causes approximately 250,000 to 500,000 deaths per year, and results in three to five million cases of serious illness, according to WHO.