Swine Flu Tracking Charts: 29 Apr Update

This is not the latest update, for the latest update click on "Latest Swine Flu Tracking Charts" at the upper right of the page.

Updated with confirmed cases from CDC and WHO on 29-Apr. For yesterday's update see here, and for the original post which has some more background info see here.



Confirmed Cases Tracking Chart


Since yesterday, 27 additional U.S. cases, 16 outside the U.S. for a total 43 additional global cases. U.S. states with cases: Arizona, California, Indiana, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Texas. Countries with cases: U.S., Mexico, Austria, Canada, Germany, Isreal, New Zealand, Spain, United Kingdom. The global confirmed cases are increasing by an average of 55% per day. If that rate continues, the global confirmed cases would reach 1000 in 4 or 5 days.



Swine Flu Public Interest Chart


Updated with Yahoo News count through 28-April and Google Search volume through 28-April. Interesting that both measures are showing a slow down in the rate of increase. Does that signal a plateau or peak in interest? Or are folks becoming numb to the idea of the swine flu? not sure. I kinda think neither and that this increase will continue higher and that this might just be a temporary rest.



Let me know if you have any comments or questions. I will try to update these earlier tomorrow since it seems the CDC and WHO are doing updates by mid day U.S. time.