Here is the weekend summary of swine flu / novel H1N1 cases around the globe. Because of various reporting deadlines the numbers may not appear the same on all reports. In addition, many of the states and Federal agencies in the United States have reduced or eliminated regular reporting.

WHO for May 23, 2009: 12,022 cases and 86 deaths in 43 countries.

Nicaragua, Venezuela and Bolivia have not reported any cases of swine flu. Is it true, or are their politics keeping them from reporting?

Canada as of May 22, 2009: 805 cases in 9 provinces and 1 territory, with 1 death. The median age of the cases is 21, meaning that half of the cases are age 21 or younger.

Department of Defense as of May 20, 2009: Reporting once a week now. 294 total cases. All cases are included in the counts by state health agencies and the CDC. Largest new outbreak is at Fort Riley, Kansas with 13 cases since the last DoD report.

CDC Report as of May 22, 2009: 6,552 cases and 9 deaths. CDC numbers continue to vary from state website numbers in some cases. It is not just reporting times differ. It appears that CDC is not pursuing updates from states as there have been occasions that CDC number has remained the same for several days despite state site changes.

Swine flu cases by city/metro area: Milwaukee=706, Chicago=668, Seattle=499, Phoenix=261, NYC and nearby counties=323.

Swine flu cases in Update NY counties: Erie=17 Buffalo area, Onondaga=11 Syracuse area.

Texas exploding with swine flu cases. Only rpting twice a week. 1,359 cases as of today. Rio Grande counties Cameron + Hildalgo=381 cases Milwaukee +194 cases in 4 days, Chicago +155, Seattle +132.

Florida is no longer reporting swine flu numbers on their site. Louisiana’s numbers make little sense. CO and SC counts difficult to locate on website.

UPDATE: The CDC and the Department of Defense have elected to not update their site with current case numbers on the weekend. Most of the state sites have also done so. Expect new numbers on Monday. Ask your elected officials why updates are so unimportant.

Here is the latest on the swine flu / H1N1 epidemic in the United States and the U.S. military. The number of cases continues to increase. Many states report their counts in the afternoon, after the CDC has issued its daily count, leading to differences in the numbers of cases recorded.

CDC: 4,714 cases and 4 deaths

Illinois: 638 cases. 473 in Chicago and Cook County (metro Chicago).

Wisconsin: 655 cases. 476 in Milwaukee. State count is slightly higher than CDC.

Texas: 556 cases. State count is 10% higher than CDC.

California: 504 cases. State website is 1 day behind at this moment. San Diego and San Bernardino counties top the list of cases recorded with 110 and 67 respectively.

Arizona: 435 cases. State site records fewer cases. 70% of cases under 18.

DoD: 253 cases. Daily cases doubled for May 15 to 48 from around 24.

• Active duty military: 125
• Family members: 111
• Recruits: 12
• Retired: 2
• Unknown at this time: 3

3 cases reported at a base in Mississippi but nothing on today’s CDC report for that state. 37 cases in San Diego shown as “ship”, presumably the USS Dubuque. 8 bases are newly reporting cases in the last 24 hours.

Case numbers increased significantly from yesterday, an additional 946. CDC reports 4,298 cases of swine flu, H1N1, in the United States. Only four states have no reported cases, Alaska, Mississippi, West Virginia and Wyoming.

The curious mix of case locations continues. The twelve states in the Midwest have 35% of the total U.S. cases (1,522) while the four states that border Mexico have 32% (1,394). Those numbers are not reflective of a region-wide outbreak, since New Mexico reports 51 cases while the other three border states have over 400 each. In the Midwest, the cases are primarily limited to Illinois-620, Wisconsin-510 and Michigan-141. The other states in the Midwest have only 251 cases between them.

Five states have reported 57% of the swine flu, H1N1 cases, Illinois, Wisconsin, California, Texas and Arizona.

Swine flu / H1N1 case counts continue to climb in the United States and in Canada. The U.S. military continues to add cases at a rate of just over 20 per day. The CDC count for today is 3,352 cases.

Six states continue to be free of swine flu cases, Alaska, Arkansas, Mississippi, North Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming.

Click on the image for a larger view of this CDC map.

SAMPLE COUNTS
Midwest states (1,292) 39% of total: Illinois-592, Wisconsin-496, Michigan-134, Indiana-70

Mexican border states (745) 22% of total: Texas-293, California-221, Arizona-187, New Mexico-44

CANADA

As of May 13 2009, a total of 389 laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 Flu Virus (Human Swine Flu) have been reported in 9 provinces and 1 territory in Canada. [snip]

As of May 11, 2009, half the cases are 22 years of age or younger (median: 22 years; range: 1 – 66 years). To date, 11 cases have been hospitalized and one death has been reported. The most recent date of onset of illness is May 8, 2009.

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

DoD swine flu clusters for May 13, 2009. USS Dubuque increased 5 cases, and BUDs by 1.

CDC (modified by state counts as noted)

Canadian Public Health Agency