Swine flu spreads to US
Sixty people in Mexico have so far died of swine flu, and the World Health organization says the disease has spread to the United States; disease regularly hits pigs but rarely affects humans
A rare outbreak of human swine flu has killed at least sixty people in Mexico and spread to the United States where authorities are on alert, the World Health Organization (WHO) said earlier today. AFP reports that WHO has identified swine influenza as a potential source of a human flu pandemic. Fadela Chaib, a spokeswoman for the UN health agency, said hundreds of cases of suspected swine flu -- which regularly hits pigs but rarely affects humans -- have been reported in Mexico. "To date there have been some 800 suspected cases with flu-like illness, with 57 deaths in the Mexico City area," Chaib added.
