Region With The Highest Swine Flu Deaths – Latin America

The number of swine flu deaths in Latin America rose above 600 yesterday, making it the region with the highest fatality count from the disease. Based on a World Health Organization (WHO) tally of 816 given recently, Latin America now accounts for more than two-thirds of the worldwide Swine Flu fatality count.

National governments in the region updated their counts recently, and authorities in Chile recorded the biggest jump, declaring eight more deaths since last week, taking their total Swine flu deaths to 87. The worst affected country in the region seems however to be Argentina, which has at least 165 confirmed Swine flu deaths.

The southern hemisphere winter (which occurs at this time of the year) seems partly to blame for the spread and virulence of the A (H1N1) pandemic in the Latin American region.