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According to a radio interview with the chancellor of the U of Hawaii, a flu researcher, the strain is H5N1. H1N1 was in the inoculations of the the past 2 years and gives some protection. The last time the vaccines contained H5N1 was in the 70's, but those who received shots then have some protection. She said that it will take 4 to 6 months to develop a vaccine.

Interesting map.

An animated one would be even more interesting. I'm polling for updates to the feed every few minutes and saving unique versions, so if no one else does it maybe I'll throw something together.

Am I the only person for which the colors are totally messed up? I think the blue marker is "pink," but I'm not even sure. Makes the map way less useful.

The colors were fine for me, but I had a few other problems. I don't know if this is intentional, but it seems as if the data of this map is somewhat inaccurate. '8 cases in Queens high school' is reported at least 4 times (others seem like copy/pastes from different news stories about the same instance), in significantly different places. At best, less useful for prediction/comprehension of issue, at worst, alarmist.

Is the map right tho? There are thousands of reported cases in Mexico and that is definitely not reflected on the map.

H1N1 Swine Flu - Google Map Mashup