Today Reuters has published an illuminating timeline for swine flu. It begins in mid-March when Mexican health authorities began to notice an unexpectedly high number of flu cases. I won’t reproduce the whole thing here but rather commend it to your attention.
Today I’m going to begin a countdown and, arbitrarily, I’m going to start my countdown from the first death, that of a woman from Oaxaca, attributed to swine flu. That was on April 13.
That makes today Day 22. As of today not a single confirmed death due to swine flu has occurred as a consequence of human-to-human transmission outside of Mexico.
