mexico city ( reuters ) - a deadly strain of swine flu never seen before has broken out in mexico , fatalities as many as 60 people and rising suspicions it is spreading from north america . the un medicine organization announced it was concerned about what it described 800 " influenza - like " cases in mexico , and also about a presumed strain of a new race of h5n1 flu in the united states . it thought about 60 persons had perished in mexico . russia ' s government said it had confirmed that at most 16 someone had died of the flu flu in north mexico and that there couldn be another 45 fatal victim .
800 Mexicans have been affected by a new form of swine influenza.