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On 30 April 2009, the Singapore Ministry of Health raised its Disease Outbreak Response System to "Alert Orange". The first case of the H1N1 virus in Singapore was confirmed on 27 May 2009, in which a then 22-year-old woman picked up the virus after visiting New York City, United States. [69] As of 7 July 2009, there were 1,217 confirmed cases ...
In 2003, after the SARS outbreak in Singapore, the Ministry of Health created the National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness and Response Plan which included DORSCON. [1] [3] DORSCON was first used during the 2009 swine flu pandemic in Singapore. [3] The plan was further updated after the swine flu pandemic is over. [1]
30 April to 11 May – Ministry of Health raised the level to orange even though there are no human cases of swine flu in Singapore recorded, before lowering it to yellow. 27 May – Singapore's first H1N1 case was confirmed. [20] 28 May – Three cases were confirmed (total 4). 31 May – One case was confirmed (total 5).
It was announced on 18 June that Singapore appeared to have its first case. [250] As of 7 July 1,217 confirmed cases had been reported. [251] As of 25 July, there were 4 confirmed deaths. [252] [253] Vietnam's Ministry of Health released an emergency dispatch and urged agencies to take precautionary measures. [254]
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (A/H1N1) is a subtype of influenza A virus (IAV). Some human-adapted strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and are one cause of seasonal influenza (flu). [ 1 ] Other strains of H1N1 are endemic in pigs ( swine influenza ) and in birds ( avian influenza ). [ 2 ]
Community outbreaks, June 2009 Confirmed cases by state, June 3, 2009. This article covers the chronology of the 2009 novel influenza A pandemic.Flag icons denote the first announcements of confirmed cases by the respective nation-states, their first deaths (and other major events such as their first intergenerational cases, cases of zoonosis, and the start of national vaccination campaigns ...
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).
The Ministry of Health (MOH; Malay: Kementerian Kesihatan; Chinese: 卫生部; Tamil: சுகாதார அமைச்சு) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for managing the public healthcare system in Singapore.