The World Health Organization said Friday that 2,384 people in 24 countries now had confirmed cases of swine flu.
Only 46 people are known to have died of the virus, all but 2 of them in Mexico.
Scientists on Thursday described 11 cases of Americans who were infected before the current outbreak with swine flus that partly matched the new epidemic strain that emerged in Mexico in March. The first case was in December 2005.
In articles published online in The New England Journal of Medicine, virologists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention described those cases, most of them in young people in the Midwest who touched or were near pigs. All had a “triple reassortant” virus that combined human, swine and avian flu genes.
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