Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 72 As of 25 October 2009,
worldwide there have been more than 440,000 laboratory confirmed
cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and over 5700 deaths
reported to WHO. As many countries have stopped counting
individual cases, particularly of milder illness, the case count
is likely to be significantly lower than the actual number of
cases that have occurred. WHO is actively monitoring the
progress of the pandemic through frequent consultations with the
WHO Regional Offices and member states and through monitoring of
multiple sources of data. In the temperate zone of the northern
hemisphere, influenza transmission continues to intensify
marking an unusually early start to winter influenza season in
some countries. In North America, the US, and parts of Western
Canada continue to report high rates of influenza-like-illness
(ILI) and numbers of pandemic H1N1 2009 virus detections; Mexico
has reported more confirmed cases since September than during
the springtime epidemic. In Western