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2009 swine flu pandemic in the United States. The 2009 flu pandemic in the United States was caused by a novel strain of the Influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", that was first detected on 15 April 2009. [114] While the 2009 H1N1 virus strain was commonly referred to as "swine flu", there is no evidence that it is ...
The 2009 swine flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1/swine flu/influenza virus and declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) from June 2009 to August 2010, was the third recent flu pandemic involving the H1N1 virus (the first being the 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic and the second being the 1977 Russian flu). [12][13] The first identified ...
Dr. José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, Mexico's Secretariat of Health, stated that since March 2009, there have been over 1,995 suspected cases and 149 deaths, with 20 confirmed to be linked to a new swine influenza strain of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1. [8][9] As of April 26 there had been 1,614 cases, with 103 deaths and about 400 patients ...
On Tuesday, the World Health Organization's top flu expert said the group is on the verge of declaring the first influenza pandemic in more than 40 years. Confirmed community spread in a second ...
Since April, when many of us first heard the name "Swine Flu" used for the H1N1 virus, the pork market has been in a The pork industry is discovering the wrong name can become a multi-billion ...
The United States experienced the beginnings of a pandemic of a novel strain of the influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", in the spring of 2009.The earliest reported cases in the US began appearing in late March 2009 in California, [114] then spreading to infect people in Texas, New York, and other states by mid-April. [115]
2009 swine flu pandemic timeline. Community outbreaks, June 2009. Confirmed cases by U.S. state, June 3, 2009. This article covers the chronology of the 2009 novel influenza A (H1N1) pandemic. [1] Flag icons denote the first announcements of confirmed cases by the respective nation-states, their first deaths (and other major events such as ...
The swine flu outbreak has caused such a demand for hand sanitizers that the makers and distributors of Purell are warning individual consumers and large users such as hospitals that limited ...