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On 19 June, the total number of confirmed cases was 131, [17] being 55 in São Paulo, 26 in Santa Catarina, 19 in Minas Gerais, 15 in Rio de Janeiro, 4 in Tocantins, 3 in Distrito Federal, 2 in Espírito Santo, 2 in Goiás, 2 in Mato Grosso, 1 in Bahia, 1 in Rio Grande do Norte and 1 in Rio Grande do Sul.
Swine influenza is an infection caused by any of several types of swine influenza viruses. Swine influenza virus (SIV) or swine-origin influenza virus (S-OIV) refers to any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is endemic in pigs. [2]
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.
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).
This page summarises the figures from the WHO Influenza A Situation Updates issued roughly once every other day, [1] and since 6 July from ECDC.For each country or territory, the table lists the number of confirmed cases of swine flu on the first reported day each month, and the latest figure.
Pandemic (H1N1) 2009–2010 by country Summary of official reports. ‡‡ Country Indicators/ Cases Deaths Spread-Trend/ Intensity/Impact ‡ Confirmed‡‡
May 27: The Ministry of Health confirmed the two first cases of Influenza A (H1N1) in the country, one of them is a 24-year-old man and the other is a 15-year-old minor. . Both have travelled to Argentina and returned to Montevideo without apparent sympt
One was a 58-year-old woman from Santiago de los Caballeros and the other was a 20-year-old woman from Santo Domingo Province. Each of them had visited the United States (Orlando and Seattle, respectively) before being diagnosed. [53] On May 30, nine more cases were confirmed, all from the Carol Morgan school. [54]