# 3842
It’s Friday, which means that later today the CDC will release their weekly FluView data, and that the WHO (World Health Organization) has released their weekly pandemic update.
Given the paucity of surveillance, testing, and reporting on the impact of the H1N1 virus from around the world, the weekly numbers provided by the WHO must be taken with a large boulder of salt.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 - update 70
Weekly update
As of 11 October 2009, worldwide there have been more than 399232 laboratory confirmed cases of pandemic influenza H1N1 2009 and over 4735 deaths reported to WHO.
As many countries have stopped counting individual cases, particularly of milder illness, the case count is significantly lower than the actually 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.
