According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization, and government officials:
23-month-old child in Texas first confirmed death from swine flu in the United States.
159 deaths in Mexico, seven confirmed as swine flu and rest suspected.
2,498 suspected sick and 19 confirmed in Mexico.
93 confrimed cases in U.S.
13 in Canada; 14 in New Zealand; five in Britain; three in Germany; four in Spain; two in Israel; and one in Austria.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration issues emergency guidance allowing certain antiviral drugs to be used in broader range of population if needed.
Public health emergency declared and roughly 12 million doses of Tamiflu from federal stockpile to be delivered to states.
Cuba bans flights to and from Mexico; Argentina suspends flights from Mexico;
U.S., European Union, other countries discourage nonessential travel there.
Arriving travelers questioned at Mexico’s U.S. border and world airports. Cruise lines avoid Mexico ports.
Mexico suspends all schools until May 6. In U.S., some schools closed in Illinois, New York City, Texas, California, South Carolina, Connecticut, Minnesota and Ohio; President Barack Obama says more closings may be necessary.
Mexico City hands out surgical masks, closes public venues and cancels public events. President assumed new powers to isolate infected people. World Bank loaning Mexico more than $200 million.
Egypt begins slaughtering nation’s roughly 300,000 pigs as precaution.
World Health Organization alert at Phase 4 of 6, meaning disease spreads easily but isn’t pandemic.
$200 million loaned from World Bank to Mexico to battle the crisis.
