Posted: 05 June 2009 1427 hrs
A policeman wearing face mask to prevent contagion by the H1N1 flu virus walk in front of a travel agency in Mexico City MEXICO CITY: Mexico's and the United States' H1N1 flu death tolls rose to 106 and 22 respectively, the health ministries said Thursday.
Mexico added three cases to 106, the health ministry said Thursday, adding that the number of confirmed infections rose to 5,611.
Of the dead to date, 52.8 per cent were women between the ages of 20 and 54, officials said.
All of Mexico's 32 states have registered H1N1 flu cases, with most in the sprawling capital Mexico City.
More than 70 per cent of the deceased were aged between 20 and 54 years, the health ministry said in an earlier statement.
Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova said Monday that the country at the epicentre of the global epidemic might lift its H1N1 flu alert in mid-June, insisting the virus was on the wane.
Meanwhile, the US H1N1 flu death toll reached 22 as one death was reported late Thursday in the eastern state of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania death, as well as deaths in New York and Chicago reported late Wednesday, were not included in the latest figures from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
Pennsylvania currently "has 269 confirmed cases and 101 probable cases of illness due to this virus," the state's Health Department said in a statement.
It was the first death in the state, officials said.
As of midday Wednesday, the CDC reported 17 deaths in the United States attributed to the A(H1N1) virus and 11,054 confirmed cases.
The CDC, which says there are confirmed cases in all 50 US states, currently updates its figures on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
A(H1N1) flu has now spread to 66 countries with 19,273 people known to have been infected since the disease was first uncovered in April, according to the most recent data from the World Health Organisation out Wednesday.
The WHO is now only updating its tally three times a week, rather than daily.
- AFP/yb
From ChannelNewsAsia.com; see the source article here.
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