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The surge was assumed by authorities to be "late-season flu" (which usually coincides with a mild Influenzavirus B peak [19]) until April 21, [20] [21] when a CDC alert concerning two isolated cases of a novel swine flu was reported in the media (see 2009 swine flu outbreak in the United States). [22]
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 ...
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 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 ...
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.
Public health officials are continuing to monitor an outbreak of avian influenza, also known as bird flu, as it spreads across the U.S.. The strain, known as H5N1, sickened several mammals this ...
In a study published in 2009, Worobey and other researchers traced the origin of the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic to events in which different viruses causing the swine flu, bird flu, and human ...
Community outbreaks, June 2009 Confirmed cases by U.S. state, June 3, 2009. This article covers the chronology of the 2009 novel influenza A pandemic. [1]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 ...