By The Associated Press AP - 2 hours 53 minutes ago
_Confirmed sickened worldwide, 1,033: 590 in Mexico; 245 in U.S.; 101 in Canada; 44 in Spain; 18 in Britain; eight in Germany; six in New Zealand; four in Israel and France; two in El Salvador and Italy; one each in Austria, Costa Rica, Colombia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Korea and Switzerland.
_U.S. confirmed cases from CDC or states: New York, 63; Texas, 43; California, 29; Arizona, 18; South Carolina, 15; Delaware, 10; Louisiana, New Jersey and Massachusetts, seven; Colorado, four; Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin, three; Connecticut, Kansas and Michigan, two; and one each in Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Idaho 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.
_The New Mexico Activities Association's board of directors suspended all athletic and activity programs for all member schools until further notice.
_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 government announces it will charter a plane to bring its citizens home from China after 70 Mexican nationals traveling in China were quarantined there.
_Mexican officials will decide Monday whether to allow schools and businesses to reopen on Wednesday.
_World Health Organization said slaughtering pigs unnecessary because 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.
_Visitation at all California prisons has been suspended after an ill inmate at Centinela State Prison in Imperial County is being tested for swine flu.
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On the Net:
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu
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Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:
_Deaths: 25 confirmed in Mexico and one confirmed in U.S., a toddler from Mexico who died in Texas._Confirmed sickened worldwide, 1,033: 590 in Mexico; 245 in U.S.; 101 in Canada; 44 in Spain; 18 in Britain; eight in Germany; six in New Zealand; four in Israel and France; two in El Salvador and Italy; one each in Austria, Costa Rica, Colombia, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, South Korea and Switzerland.
_U.S. confirmed cases from CDC or states: New York, 63; Texas, 43; California, 29; Arizona, 18; South Carolina, 15; Delaware, 10; Louisiana, New Jersey and Massachusetts, seven; Colorado, four; Florida, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin, three; Connecticut, Kansas and Michigan, two; and one each in Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Idaho 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.
_The New Mexico Activities Association's board of directors suspended all athletic and activity programs for all member schools until further notice.
_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 government announces it will charter a plane to bring its citizens home from China after 70 Mexican nationals traveling in China were quarantined there.
_Mexican officials will decide Monday whether to allow schools and businesses to reopen on Wednesday.
_World Health Organization said slaughtering pigs unnecessary because 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.
_Visitation at all California prisons has been suspended after an ill inmate at Centinela State Prison in Imperial County is being tested for swine flu.
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On the Net:
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu
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From Yahoo! News; source article is here.
