H1N1 Update from the HealthMap team of the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program.

* The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that “Disease activity has peaked and is declining in North America and has either recently peaked or is currently peaking in much of western and northern Europe.” In other good news, WHO also reports no signs of widespread resistance to Tamiflu.
* Nevertheless, the WHO has clearly stated it is too soon to call the pandemic over. The global death toll from H1N1 rose to 8,768 as Cyprus, Albania and the Gaza Strip recorded their 1st H1N1 deaths. The Netherlands saw their first Tamiflu-resistant death.
* In the United States, only half of all states reported widespread flu activity, down from 43 states only two weeks ago. England reported new cases were half of the previous week’s number.

HealthMap continues to track H1N1 and all other infectious diseases at http://www.healthmap.org.

For more information from Children’s Hospital Boston on the seasonal and H1N1 flus, visit Flu Information Center.

Courtesy of Children’s Hospital Boston.