The World Health Organisation has called an international health emergency, which will ratchet up to a full-on pandemic alert, if more cases are discovered around the world.
There have been more than 100 deaths in Mexico where people must wear face masks and the public is being discouraged from mingling.
Elsewhere there were no more deaths reported yesterday, but most countries have published some reaction to the threat.
Britain's government has said its anti-viral treatments in reserve can cover about half the population, with health workers receiving their protection first.
Mexican health workers are reported to have guessed that tens of thousands of people there have been infected, although many may have already recovered.
Antivirals have been stockpiled worldwide in response to the avian flu outbreak a few years ago.
The Guardian in Britain reports that health officials in New York are particularly concerned because those most at risk of dying of swine flu are healthy adults whose immune systems 'overreact' to the virus.
Considering the simple and treatable illnesses and medical conditions killing and maiming people in their millions across the world, isn't our healthy and developed country overreacting?
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