73 cases if swine flu confirmed, global fear mongering begins.
- Seventy-three cases of swine flu have been confirmed worldwide, the World Health Organization said Monday. Forty of those cases are in the United States, 26 in Mexico, six in Canada and one in Spain, a WHO representative said. Hundreds more cases are suspected, especially in Mexico, where as many as 103 deaths in Mexico are thought to have been caused by the virus, the country's health minister said. More than 1,700 cases have been reported but not confirmed in the country. Federal officials confirmed 20 new U.S. cases on Monday. A federal official said they were at the same school in New York in which eight U.S. cases were confirmed earlier. More than 100 students at the school were out with flu-like symptoms last week. President Obama said Monday that the swine flu outbreak is a "cause for concern and requires a heightened state of alert," but is not a "cause for alarm." He added that the federal government is closely monitoring emerging cases and had