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The 2009 swine flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1/swine flu/influenza virusand 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 flupandemic and the second being the 1977 Russian flu). [12][13]The first identified human ...
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 ...
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 ...
2009. A (H1N1) Outbreak and Pandemic Milestones. 17 March. First case in the world of what was later identified as swine flu origin. 28 March. First country's case affected the disease in the US of what was later identified as swine flu origin. 12 April.
The first two cases in the Dominican Republic were confirmed on 27 May. [329] By 7 June 93 cases had been confirmed, primarily mild infections. [330] As of 7 July 2009, 33 cases were confirmed in Jamaica. Health Minister Ruddy Spencer told Parliament that the country had been placed on high alert.
The real number of swine flu cases in the United States could be “upwards of 100,000,” a top public health official estimated on Friday — far higher than the official count of 7,415 cases confirmed by laboratories. [34] On September 1, 2009, several new virus isolates were tested for neuraminidase inhibitor resistance.
v. t. e. 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.
New Jersey. As of July 22, 2009, the New Jersey Government has confirmed 936 cases of swine flu and 480 probable cases, most of them within a range of 30 minutes of New York or Philadelphia. More swine flu cases are being reported daily, which has caused a widespread in the state.