BEIJING (AP) — The global spread of A(H1N1) will endanger more lives as it speeds up in coming months and governments must boost preparations for a swift response, the World Health Organization said Friday.

A public hospital here have recently distributed hundreds of flyers reminding visitors not to bring little children while visiting hospital wards particularly in the wake of the latest development of the H1N1 epidemic in the country.

Health minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai declared that the flu situation had gone into an emergency level. He also said medical personnel in government hospitals, be they doctors, dentists, pharmacists and nurses, were in short supply.

BANGKOK (AFP) - Thailand's public health authority announced Wednesday 14 new fatalities from swine flu over the past week, bringing the total death toll in the kingdom to 111.

Health minister Liow Tiong Lai said some of the A(H1N1) victims were killed because of delayed treatments, according to the analysis done on flu fatality. He said his ministry would be investigating why treatments had been delayed.

JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesia's death toll from swine flu has risen to four, the health ministry said Tuesday.

The government has decided against releasing information on Influenza A(H1N1) hot spots in the country, with Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin saying it was not a practical idea.

NEW DELHI, India (AP) — The streets of the western city of Pune were half-empty, schools in Mumbai were ordered closed, and people suffering aches flooded hospitals across the country as India confronted dueling outbreaks of swine flu and swine flu panic.

HANOI: The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported 63 new infections of the A(H1N1) influenza, bringing the total number of cases to 1,363 nationwide with two deaths as of 5 p.m. on Friday.

HOUSTON: The Seattle health department said on Friday that two immunosuppressed patients being treated for A(H1N1) flu had been identified as resistant to Tamiflu, China's Xinhua news agency reported.