Curiously, WHO's SG, a former Brittish Hong-Kong expert, accepted to stop the International Organization from reporting the world-wide number of cases of infections and deaths by the strange, "new" flu Virus, after USA reached some 34.000 cases (and 170 deaths : more than anywhere else in the World !), while Russia had only three (3) infection cases...
Followed US -neighbors Mexico and Canada (with 10.262 and 7.983 infections, but also 119 and 25 deaths, respectively), as well as closely US-related countries as the UK, and Australia (with, respectively, 7.447 and 5.928, infections, but also 3 and 10 deaths). Latin-American countries, started also to be affected, with Chile and Argentina having respectively 7.376 and 2.485 infections, but 14 and 60 deaths).
On the contrary, Russia still had only .. three (3) infection cases, as well as many other European countries as fex. Ukraine, Croatia, Bosnia-Hezegovina and Latvia : only one each (1), FYROM 2, Lithuania 3, Iceland 4, Luxembourg 6, Bulgaria and Montenegro : 10, Hungary 11, Estonia 13, Slovenia 14, Serbia and Czech Republic 15, Slovakia 18, Austria 19, Poland 25, etc.
As well as many African, Asian or ACP countries, such as f.ex. Cote d' Ivoire, Tunisia, Iran, Syria, Libya, Uganda, Dominica and Myanmar : only 1 infection case each, Cap Verde : 3, Nepal and Oman : 4, Ethiopia 3, Laos 5, Algeria 5 , Cambodia 7, UAE and Yemen : 8, Iraq 12, Kenya 15, Morocco 17, etc.
(Data on July 6).
See :
http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_07_06/en/index.htmlhttp://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/notes/h1n1_surveillance_20090710/en/index.html