GENEVA, December 23 - At least 11,516 people worldwide have died of H1N1 flu pandemic has emerged in April, World Health Organization (WHO) reported Wednesday.
But in its weekly update, which showed an increase in deaths officially recorded at around 1000, since the last report, it said that the disease seems to have reached a peak or a plateau in Western Europe and North America, while the transmission is down in parts of Asia .
In the United States and Canada, is the virus spread geographically, but the general level of flu-like, was significantly decreased illnesses and hospitalizations and deaths are declining, the WHO said.
In Europe, the active transmission of the virus is still widespread throughout the continent, but in most countries, its activity appears to have peaked - although it was rising in the central and eastern parts of the continent.
In an earlier report Tuesday, said the UN agency pandemic is still moderate, but continues to infect and kill people much younger than the traditional seasonal flu.
But although the figures confirmed deaths from H1N1, sometimes called swine flu, WHO officials say comparisons of the number of deaths from the two types of flu is complex and can be misleading. GM Hot News
