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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 ...
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 ...
Spanish flu (1918–1920) The 1918 flu pandemic, commonly referred to as the Spanish flu, was a category 5 influenza pandemic caused by an unusually severe and deadly Influenza A virus strain of subtype H1N1 . The difference between the influenza mortality age-distributions of the 1918 epidemic and normal epidemics.
June 5, 2024 at 7:24 PM. By Julie Steenhuysen and Adriana Barrera. (Reuters) -A person with prior health complications who had contracted bird flu died in Mexico in April and the source of ...
This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.
A semi-logarithmic chart of laboratory-confirmed A(H1N1) influenza cases by date according to WHO reports. [196] Mexico, USA, and Canada are shown as a breakdown of the total. In the United States, initial reports of atypical flu in two individuals in southern California led to the discovery of the virus by the Center for Disease Control in mid ...
D04536. Influenza vaccines, colloquially known as flu shots, are vaccines that protect against infection by influenza viruses. [ 14][ 15] New versions of the vaccines are developed twice a year, as the influenza virus rapidly changes. [ 14] While their effectiveness varies from year to year, most provide modest to high protection against ...