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The influenza A virus subtype H1N1 (initially known as swine influenza virus or as new flu, and also locally known as gripe A, gripe porcina, and influenza porcina) arrived in Argentina in late April 2009, through air traffic contact with endemic areas, especially Mexico and the United States.
In Spain it was also known as the 'French flu' (gripe francesa), [51] [9] or the 'Naples Soldier' (Soldado de Nápoles), after a popular song from a zarzuela. [b] [58] Spanish flu (gripe española) is now a common name in Spain, [63] but remains controversial there. [64] [65] Othering derived from geopolitical borders and social boundaries.
Flu season is an annually recurring time period characterized by the prevalence of an outbreak of influenza (flu). The season occurs during the cold half of the year in each hemisphere.
Influenza, commonly known as the flu, is an infectious disease caused by influenza viruses.Symptoms range from mild to severe and often include fever, runny nose, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue.
He extended a scoring streak with a brace as Madrid routed 10-man Las Palmas 4-1 in La Liga Sunday, reaching four goals in his last four matches. He said last year after a loss to Athletic Bilbao ...
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).
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Influenza ward at Walter Reed Hospital, in Washington, D.C., during the 1918 flu pandemic. An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads across a large region (either multiple continents or worldwide) and infects a large proportion of the population.