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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 ...
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 ...
The swine flu began in Mexico, North America, which turn out to be a new strain of H1N1 virus and the first case could have been as early as March or April. In Canada, roughly 10% of the populace were infected with the virus, [ 298 ] with 363 confirmed deaths (as of 8 December); confirmed cases had reached 10,000 when Health Canada stopped ...
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.
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 ...
Swine influenza is an infection caused by any of several types of swine influenza viruses. Swine influenza virus (SIV) or swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) refers to any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs. [ 2 ] As of 2009, identified SIV strains include influenza C and the subtypes of influenza A known as H1N1 ...
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican animal safety authorities confirmed the first case of H5N1 avian influenza in a wild bird on Wednesday, after declaring the country's poultry farms free of the virus ...
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 ...