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The United States experienced the beginnings of a pandemic of a novel strain of the influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", in the spring of 2009.The earliest reported cases in the US began appearing in late March 2009 in California, [114] then spreading to infect people in Texas, New York, and other states by mid-April. [115]
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.
t. e. 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). [12][13] The first ...
Fever. Sore throat. Stuffy or runny nose. Body aches. Headache. Chills. Fatigue. Like the regular flu, swine flu can lead to more serious problems including pneumonia, a lung infection, and other ...
In the U.S., H1N1 swine flu vaccine started to become available in October 2009, ... Health care workers and emergency medical responders; People caring for infants under 6 months of age;
Lab tests can identify H1N1 swine flu, but not in time to get a definitive diagnosis in time to b egin antiviral trea tment. Health departments are no longer testing specimens unless they come ...
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the H1N1 pandemic over in August 2010. Since then, the H1N1 virus has been known as a regular human flu virus. Since then, the H1N1 virus has been ...
COVID-19 is more contagious than 2009 H1N1 influenza. This means that COVID-19 can spread more easily between individuals. It’s estimated that the R 0 for COVID-19 is about 3 while the R 0 for ...