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The UN's top health official has opened a forum in Mexico on combating swine flu by saying that the spread of the virus worldwide is now unstoppable.

World Health Organization head Margaret Chan added that the holding of the meeting in Cancun showed confidence in Mexico, which has been hard hit.

The WHO says most H1N1 cases are mild, with many people recovering unaided.

As the summit opened, the UK alone was projecting more than 100,000 new cases of H1N1 a day by the end of the summer.

The Director General of the World Health Organization, Doctor Margaret Chan, has formally stated that the swine flu outbreak is now a global pandemic.

Speaking at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Dr Chan said the further spread of the virus was inevitable.

27th June The number of confirmed swine flu cases in England has jumped by nearly 20% in a single day, latest figures show.

The Health Protection Agency statistics show that 535 new cases were confirmed on Friday, bringing the total to 3,364.

Scotland registered another 72 cases on Friday, an 8.5% rise, bringing the total to 922, and a 25th case was confirmed in Northern Ireland.

With 12 cases confirmed in Wales, the total number of confirmed UK cases now stands at 4,323.

Sir Liam Donaldson, the chief medical officer for England, warned on Thursday that the UK could soon expect to see a surge of new cases.

He predicted tens of thousands of cases of swine flu could be emerging each week by the autumn.

The West Midlands remains the most badly affected area of England, with 158 new cases confirmed on Friday, bringing the total to 1,516.

27th June US health officials estimate that at least one million Americans have been infected with swine flu since the H1N1 virus emerged nearly three months ago.

The number is far higher than cases actually reported to the authorities.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said many cases were mild, although 127 people had died.

6 June 09 The number of swine flu cases in the UK has climbed to more than 540.

The total stands at 541 after 19 more cases were confirmed in England, as well as 13 new ones in Scotland and one further case in Northern Ireland.

22 May Public school Eton will close for a week after a pupil tested positive for swine flu, a school spokesman has said.

The Berkshire boys school, which was attended by Princes William and Harry, was informed on Wednesday that a 13-year-old boy had tested positive.

Health authorities advised the school to shut until 7 June.

It comes after health officials announced a further 17 people in the UK were diagnosed with the virus, taking the total number of cases to 203.

Fourteen of the new cases - 13 children and one adult - are part of an outbreak now totalling 64 cases linked to Welford Primary School in Birmingham.

The number of swine flu cases in Japan has risen rapidly - with more than 120 cases now confirmed.

Mexico has revised down the suspected death toll from swine flu from 176 to 101, indicating that the outbreak may not be as bad as was initially feared.
 

13 May A nursery and a primary school in Greenock are to be closed for a week after two children were confirmed as probable swine flu cases.

A five-year-old boy, who is at Ravenscraig Primary, and a three-year-old attending Ladybird Pre-Five Centre have tested positive for influenza A.

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said 23 pupils in the school's primary one class were being treated with Tamiflu.

She added that health officials were at the nursery to provide advice.

Ms Sturgeon said the cases appeared to be connected to a 19-year-old resident of the town who was confirmed with swine flu at the weekend.

lan Johnson told MPs one of the new cases was a child at one of the five schools that have already closed.  The affected school - Alleyn's in Dulwich, south-east London - has already seen six pupils diagnosed with the H1N1 virus earlier this week.  More than 400 people in the UK are currently being tested for the virus (426 cases are under investigation.)

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