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Updated: October 29, 2009. In March and April 2009, an outbreak of a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as "swine flu" infected many people in Mexico and other parts of the world, causing illness ranging from mild to severe. Initial reports suggested that the outbreak had started in February due to farming practices at a pig farm half ...
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 ). [ 12][ 13] The first identified ...
1 million (estimate) ‡Suspected cases have not been confirmed by laboratory tests as being due to this strain, although some other strains may have been ruled out. The 1889–1890 pandemic, often referred to as the " Asiatic flu " [1] or " Russian flu ", was a worldwide respiratory viral pandemic. It was the last great pandemic of the 19th ...
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] Subtypes of IAV are defined by the combination of the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have reached Mexico in February 2020.
Influenza viruses: You’re likely familiar with the seasonal flu, but in the last century there have also been four influenza pandemics: the infamous Spanish Flu pandemic in 1918, the H2N2 flu ...
Dr. José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, Mexico's Secretariat of Health, stated that since March 2009, there have been over 1,995 suspected cases and 149 deaths, with 20 confirmed to be linked to a new swine influenza strain of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1. [8] [9] As of April 26 there had been 1,614 cases, with 103 deaths and about 400 patients ...
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.