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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 World Organisation for Animal Health called the swine killing "scientifically unjustified". [202] The first case of the H1N1 virus was discovered in Cairo, Egypt on 2 June 2009, in a 12-year-old girl coming from the US with her mother. Only the girl was infected and the officials caught the case before letting her out of the airport.
The H1N1 pandemic of 2009 was the first public health emergency of international concern designated by the World Health Organization. While H1N1/09 was the primary strain of flu seen that year, it was not unusually contagious or lethal. Most cases were mild, although those who had to be hospitalized were often severely ill.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the first two A/09(H1N1) swine flu cases in California on April 17, 2009, via the Border Infectious Disease Program, [135] for a San Diego County child, and a naval research facility studying a special diagnostic test, where influenza sample from the child from Imperial County was tested. [136]
The virus is a variant genotype 4 (G4) Eurasian avian-like (EA) H1N1 virus that mainly affects pigs, but there is some evidence of it infecting people. [119] A peer-reviewed paper from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ( PNAS ) stated that "G4 EA H1N1 viruses possess all the essential hallmarks of being highly adapted to ...
A(H1N1) Outbreak and Pandemic Milestones in North America 17 March: First case in the world of what would later be identified as swine flu. 28 March First case in the US of what would later be identified as swine flu. 12 April First known death due to what would later be identified as swine flu. 25 April Community outbreaks confirmed in United ...
Community outbreaks, June 2009 Confirmed cases by U.S. state, June 3, 2009. This article covers the chronology of the 2009 novel influenza A 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 their first intergenerational cases, cases of zoonosis, and the start of national vaccination ...
The first death related to the A/H1N1 virus occurred on 23 July 2009, and the total death toll reached 78 by early 2010. [4] In response to the growing number of cases, the Malaysian government declared a national health emergency and shifted its strategy from containment to mitigation on 6 July 2009. [5]