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On 29 April, the US had its first confirmed death, [316] and on 5 May the first US citizen died from swine flu. [317] On 6 June, there were 17 confirmed deaths from swine flu in the US. [318] By mid-May 2009 many states had abandoned testing unless serious illness and/or hospitalization were present. [319]
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).
However, the virus continues to circulate as a seasonal flu virus, and cause illness, hospitalization, and deaths worldwide every year. [118] From April 12, 2009, to April 10, 2010, the CDC estimates there were 60.8 million cases (range: 43.3 - 89.3 million), 274,304 hospitalizations (range: 195,086 - 402,719), and 12,469 deaths (range: 8868 ...
The first death from swine flu in Massachusetts occurred on June 14, 2009, when a 30-year-old Boston woman died. [234] Eleven deaths have been confirmed as being caused by the H1N1 virus in total. [ 42 ]
Britain’s first human case of swine flu strain H1N2 has been detected, ... In 2009, a pandemic caused by H1N1, caused 474 deaths in the UK, and sparked a worldwide global health emergency.
Two weeks after his death, health officials announced the cause of death was a new strain of swine flu. The strain, a variant of H1N1, is known as A/New Jersey/1976 (H1N1). It was detected only from January 19 to February 9 and did not spread beyond Fort Dix.
It happened again in 2009, when a human and swine flu switched genes, unleashing the H1N1 swine flu outbreak that killed roughly 500,000 people. Already there is evidence this virus is swapping genes.
Community outbreaks, June 2009 Confirmed cases by state, June 3, 2009. This article covers the chronology of the 2009 novel influenza A pandemic.Flag icons denote the first announcements of confirmed cases by the respective nation-states, their first deaths (and other major events such as their first intergenerational cases, cases of zoonosis, and the start of national vaccination campaigns ...