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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)
As many as 23,000 Mexicans were likely infected with the swine flu virus,' Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London and colleagues reported in the journal Science." [11] Soldiers mobilized by the government have handed out six million surgical masks to citizens in and around Mexico City. [12]
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).
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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.
Mexico's public health department said in a statement that he had underlying ailments, including chronic kidney failure, diabetes and high blood pressure. Hospital care was sought on April 24 and the man died the same day. Initial tests showed an unidentified type of flu that subsequent weeks of lab testing confirmed was H5N2.
CHICAGO (Reuters) -H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.