on 24 April this year the World Health Organization (WHO, 2009a) website reported that the government had began picking up cases mid-March of influenza-like illness (ILI This influenza was attributed to influenza A(H1N1) virus, to become known to many as swine flu". became of great concern in Mexico, causing deaths and growing numbers of infections. At that time the United States government also reported seven confirmed human cases and seven suspected cases in the USA.