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In 1976, an outbreak of the swine flu, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 at Fort Dix, New Jersey caused one death, hospitalized 13, and led to a mass immunization program. After the program began, the vaccine was associated with an increase in reports of Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), which can cause paralysis, respiratory arrest, and death.
1924 Los Angeles pneumonic plague outbreak; 1924–1925 Minnesota smallpox epidemic; 1947 New York City smallpox outbreak; 1962-1965 rubella epidemic [2] 1976 Philadelphia Legionnaires' disease outbreak; 1976 swine flu outbreak; 1987 Carroll County cryptosporidiosis outbreak; 1990–1991 Philadelphia measles outbreak; 1993 Four Corners ...
This is a timeline of influenza, briefly describing major events such as outbreaks, epidemics, pandemics, discoveries and developments of vaccines.In addition to specific year/period-related events, there is the seasonal flu that kills between 250,000 and 500,000 people every year and has claimed between 340 million and 1 billion human lives throughout history.
The worst flu season in years is swamping California, ... The rate at which flu tests returned positive results at the state's clinical sentinel labs surged to 27.8% for the week ending Feb. 1 ...
US influenza statistics by flu season. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention page called "Disease Burden of Flu": "Each year CDC estimates the burden of influenza in the U.S. CDC uses modeling to estimate the number of flu illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths related to flu that occurred in a given season.
It’s been deemed the worst bird flu outbreak in American history—and the virus is showing no signs of stopping. Since the beginning of this year, nearly 2.5 million birds from commercial and ...
California officials have documented bird flu in 645 dairy herds—311 dairies in just the last 30 days. The virus has killed more than 123 million birds in the U.S. since 2022, most of them in ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:2009_swine_flu_outbreak_in_California.png licensed with Cc-by-3.0 2009-05-29T09:36:28Z ZabMilenko 596x676 (16616 Bytes) Updates. Moved a couple suspected to confirmed but no new counties. 2009-05-22T21:00:25Z ZabMilenko 596x676 (16732 Bytes) Updates