Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 regional update 11 Jan 2010
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Weekly Summary
- In North America, acute respiratory disease activity continued to decrease and is lower than expected in some areas
- In the Caribbean, all countries reported unchanged and decreasing trends in acute respiratory disease
- Central American countries reported decreasing trends in acute respiratory disease
- South American countries reported mostly decreasing or unchanged trends of acute respiratory disease, except Peru, which reported an increasing trend
- A median of 100% of subtyped influenza A viruses were pandemic (H1N1) 2009
- 136 new confirmed deaths in 7 countries were reported; in total there have been 7,016 cumulative confirmed deaths