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Secretaria de Salud, Mexico "Outbreak of Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection – Mexico, March–April 2009" – CDC Morbidity and Mortality (Dispatch) 2009-04-30; World Health Organization (WHO): 2009 swine flu outbreak in Mexico; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Swine Influenza (Flu)
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.
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).
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 ...
Even as the United States grapples with an outbreak of H5N1 flu in dairy cattle, the World Health Organization has announced the first known human infection with a different strain, H5N2, in a ...
The CDC assured it is monitoring the situation carefully. The virus that infected the Canadian teen underwent mutational changes that would make it easier for that version of H5N1 to infect people ...
A 29-year-old, who had recently visited Mexico, was being tested for a suspected case of swine flu. [56] Guatemala is checking all travelers arriving from Mexico for signs of flu and stopping anyone with symptoms of the virus at border crossings. [56]
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.