I posted a thread about this when the 7 figure first came out and all these responses came back about how it was the end of the world and there was a mexican conspiracy to hide the true casualty figure. Those people posting blogs and comments had to know the true story from their obviously factual anecdotal evidence.

The first rule of disasters is the casualty figure will be inflated, makes for better reading.

I don't know what the truth is. I only have the jumbled up numbers they give us.

I do know that either they do not want us to know the real numbers, good or bad, or they don't really care enough to get real numbers.

I am not trying to hype this. The potential is scary. Lots of people think it is nothing. I want to believe that it is nothing, and so far it does look hyped.

But if it is something bad and we do not proper measures, then the bad scenario becomes the worst case scenario.

All too often our leaders make things worse by concealing the truth. By now all the dead in mexico should have either been confirmed or excluded.
The only figures I can find are that 19 are confirmed out of 170, and no published figure for how many of the remaining 161 were excluded, and how many were not tested.

This just came in, WHO rss feed "Influenza A(H1N1) - update 13" - "As of 06:00 GMT, 4 May 2009, 20 countries have officially reported 985 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection."

Its just a matter of time before who up it to phase 6, too many countries are affected now.