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Wikipedia states that there has been 226,682 reports and 219,681 laboratory confirmed cases worldwide. With 2,047 suspected and 1,882 confirmed deaths.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic



This figure is possibly not all that useful.

For example here in the UK barely anyone is beign tested now: if you have flu like symptoms they assume you have H1N1 and hand you Tammiflu (there is even a phone line for you to self-diagnose.... doh). My doctor admitted to me last week that he has no idea how many of his patients are infected - it's faster just to assume swine flu - and that he suspected the figures are significantly lower (here in the UK) than reported (currently they are waffling about 100,000 new cases day)


Hence the laboratory tested figure.




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