# 3297
Well perhaps . . . at least if you believe the testing and surveillance numbers being released by other countries (which I don’t).
Australia, however, seems to have been far more diligent in testing and reporting than many other countries, and so it is entirely possible that they really aren’t the Swine Flu Capital of the World.
In any event, this would seem to put the final nail in the coffin of the WHO’s argument that sustained community transmission of the H1N1 virus hasn’t been demonstrated outside of the Americas.
Of course, the WHO now seems to be considering other factors (read into that what you want) before determining that a pandemic has begun.
This from The Australian.
Melbourne the swine flu capital of the world
Lauren Wilson | June 06, 2009
Article from: The Australian
MELBOURNE is now the swine-flu capital of the world, with the H1N1 virus twice as prevalent in the Victorian population as it is in Mexico, where the pandemic began.
As Singaporean authorities yesterday advised travellers to avoid Melbourne where possible, federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon emphasised there were no domestic travel restrictions in place, despite swine flu breaching the containment protocols in the state.
According to the latest figures from the World Health Organisation, the US has 11,131 confirmed cases of swine flu, Mexico has 5029 and Australia has 705.
Since those figures were published, another 301 Australians have been confirmed to have the swine flu virus.
In total, Australia now has 1006 confirmed cases of H1N1, 874 of those being Victorians.
With the state's comparatively small population, this means swine flu occurs in about one in 9139 Victorians - more than double the one in 21,860 Mexicans with the virus and triple the one in 27,295 people with swine flu in the US.
