Weekly update
As of 17 October 2009, worldwide there have been more than 414,000
laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and nearly
5000 deaths reported to WHO.
As many countries have stopped counting individual cases, particularly
of milder illness, the case count is significantly lower than the
actually number of cases that have occurred. WHO is actively monitoring
the progress of the pandemic through frequent consultations with the
WHO Regional Offices and member states and through monitoring of
multiple sources of data.
Laboratory-confirmed cases of pandemic
(H1N1) 2009 as officially reported to WHO by States Parties to the IHR
(2005) as of 18 October 2009Map of affected countries and deaths
The countries and overseas territories/communities that have newly
reported their first pandemic (H1N1) 2009 confirmed cases since the
last web update (No.70): Mongolia, Rwanda and Sao Tome and Principe.
The countries and overseas territories/communities that have newly
reported their first deaths among pandemic (H1N1) 2009 confirmed cases
since the last web update (No 70): Iceland, Sudan and Trinidad and
Tobago.
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_10_23/en/index.html