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New Swine Flu cases decreased again from the previous week, down to 53,000 new cases in England in the last week. 783 patients were hospitalised. The number of deaths related to swine flu in the UK increased to 214 [52] (142 in England). The HPA estimates that there have now been a total of 715,000 cases of swine flu since the pandemic began.
CHICAGO (Reuters) -H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.
A new type of swine flu has been detected in a United Kingdom human for the first time, the region’s Health Security Agency announced Monday.. Symptoms of influenza A(H1N2)v, clade 1b.1.1, were ...
News. Shopping. Main Menu. News. News. Entertainment. Lighter Side. Politics. Science & Tech. Sports. Weather. 24/7 Help. ... Swine flu is usually caused by three subtypes - H1N1, H1N2 and H3N2 ...
The pandemic H1N1/09 virus is a swine origin influenza A virus subtype H1N1 strain that was responsible for the 2009 swine flu pandemic. This strain is often called swine flu by the public media due to the prevailing belief that it originated in pigs. The virus is believed to have originated around September 2008 in central Mexico.
These strains of swine flu rarely pass from human to human. Symptoms of zoonotic swine flu in humans are similar to those of influenza and influenza-like illness and include chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness, shortness of breath, and general discomfort.
Unidentified individual from north Yorkshire tested by GP after suffering from respiratory problems
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).