Key developments on swine flu outbreaks, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, World Health Organization and government officials:
_Deaths: Global total of 75 — 68 in Mexico, five in U.S., one in Canada and one in Costa Rica. Officials said Canadian, U.S. and Costa Rican victims also had other medical conditions.
_Confirmed cases: WHO says 39 countries have reported total of 8,480 cases, mostly in U.S. and Mexico.
_Japan said Sunday that its confirmed cases rose to 44, from just five one day earlier. Japan earlier confirmed its first case of swine flu caught within the country, showing that effort to block flu at its borders had failed.
_Turkey's health officials said the virus was detected in a man and his mother who had traveled to Istanbul from the U.S.
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