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1 Chart. 2 Confirmed cases. 3 Deaths. 4 Maps. 5 References. Toggle the table of contents. 2009 flu pandemic table April 2009. ... Swine flu cases, April 2009; By date ...
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.
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
That is exactly what happened with the 2009 H1N1 swine flu and the Spanish flu of 1918 pandemics. Influenza A subtypes. Influenza A (but not B) also has subtypes labeled H and N. These refer to ...
The Spanish Flu, the second deadliest pandemic in history after the bubonic plague, along with the aftermath of World War I and ensuing political and social chaos, made 1918 a tough time to be alive.
Despite the high morbidity and mortality rates that resulted from the epidemic, the Spanish flu began to fade from public awareness over the decades until the arrival of news about bird flu and other pandemics in the 1990s and 2000s. [320] [321] This has led some historians to label the Spanish flu a "forgotten pandemic". [177]
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The World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [6] expressed serious concerns that the new strain, which transmits between humans and has had a relatively high mortality rate in the possible and confirmed Mexican cases, has the potential to become an influenza pandemic.