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A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness resulting from the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than that of the yearly seasonal flu. [120] For comparison, the CDC estimates the global H1N1 death toll at 284,000 and the WHO estimates that 250,000 to 500,000 people die of seasonal flu annually. [121]
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).
United Kingdom The death toll passes 100. Total confirmed deaths: 106. The NHS confirms that second wave of swine flu has begun, with cases in Wales and Northern Ireland being especially high. The Minister of Health confirms that there were 27,000 cases in the last week in England alone, up from 14,000 the week before.
2009 swine flu pandemic: 2009–2010 Worldwide Influenza A virus subtype H1N1: Lab confirmed deaths: 18,449 (reported to the WHO) [264] Estimated death toll: 284,000 (possible range 151,700–575,400) [265] 2010s Haiti cholera outbreak: 2010–2019 Haiti: Cholera (strain serogroup O1, serotype Ogawa) 10,075 [266]
On May 19, 2009, a St. Louis County man became the first death in Missouri due to the Swine Flu. As of mid-May 2009 many states had abandoned testing for likely influenza cases unless serious illness and/or hospitalization were present. [ 32 ]
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]
As of 14 July, the number of officially recognised cases skyrocketed, with 137 deaths, [359] making the death toll in Argentina the second highest in the world at the time, behind only the US. As of April, Brazilian airports were monitoring arrivals from affected areas, under the direction of the National Sanitary Surveillance Agency (ANVISA).
The number of deaths as of September 2009 was said to be a tiny fraction of the annual number of deaths from seasonal flu. [32] However, comparisons of human fatality figures with seasonal influenza are prone to underestimate impact of the pandemic, [ 33 ] and the pandemic H1N1/09 virus was in fact the dominant strain of influenza causing ...