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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the first two A/09(H1N1) swine flu cases in California on April 17, 2009, via the Border Infectious Disease Program, [135] for a San Diego County child, and a naval research facility studying a special diagnostic test, where influenza sample from the child from Imperial County was tested. [136]
The United States experienced the beginnings of a pandemic of a novel strain of the influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", in the spring of 2009.The earliest reported cases in the US began appearing in late March 2009 in California, [114] then spreading to infect people in Texas, New York, and other states by mid-April. [115]
This step is justified by the finding, that at this point of the year more than 98% of detected flu cases are caused by the novel flu. [ 117 ] [ 118 ] Other states, such as Utah (early June) and Washington (end of May), have started to report the number of hospitalized cases instead of infected cases.
The season’s death toll of 199 matches the 2019-20 flu season, CDC said. The highest death toll recorded was 288 children who died from the flu in the 2009-10 season, at the height of the H1N1 ...
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The recent rise in cases prompted the CDC to announce Dec. 20 as the start of the 2024-25 flu season and urged those over the age of 6 months to vaccinate against the virus.
The CDC estimated there have been at least 5.3 million illnesses, 63,000 hospitalizations and 2,700 deaths (including 11 children) from flu this season, as of Dec. 28.
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).