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Dominican Republic Outbreak evolution in the Dominican Republic. According to the Dominican Republic Government, two people were confirmed to be infected with the AH1N1 flu on May 27. One was a 58-year-old woman from Santiago de los Caballeros and the other was a 20-year-old woman from Santo Domingo Province.
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 ...
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.
Swine flu is being billed as a potential killer this winter, but health officials still tell us the best public defense is washing our hands. Everyone should get H1N1 flu shots, the feds say, yet ...
African swine fever virus (ASFV) is a large, double-stranded DNA virus in the Asfarviridae family. [1] It is the causative agent of African swine fever (ASF). The virus causes a hemorrhagic fever with high mortality rates in domestic pigs ; some isolates can cause death of animals as quickly as a week after infection.
2009 swine flu pandemic tables. This page summarises the figures from the WHO Influenza A Situation Updates issued roughly once every other day, [1] and since 6 July from ECDC. For each country or territory, the table lists the number of confirmed cases of swine flu on the first reported day each month, and the latest figure.
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.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday pledged up to $500 million to prevent the spread of the fatal pig virus African swine fever, after Haiti and the Dominican Republic recently ...