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The 2009 flu pandemic was confirmed to have spread to the Philippines on May 21, 2009. In the following days, several local cases were reported to be caused by contact with two infected Taiwanese women who attended a wedding ceremony in Zambales. The 18-year-old arrived at the country on May 18 and was hospitalized the day after at the Research ...
Provinces with confirmed cases. The 2009 flu pandemic in the Philippines began on May 21, 2009, when a young Filipina girl first contracted the A (H1N1) virus while in the United States. In the following days, several local cases were reported to be caused by contact with two infected Taiwanese women who attended a wedding ceremony in Zambales .
In virology, influenza A virus subtype H1N1 ( A/H1N1) is a subtype of influenza A virus. Major outbreaks of H1N1 strains in humans include the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the 1977 Russian flu pandemic and the 2009 swine flu pandemic. It is an orthomyxovirus that contains the glycoproteins hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N), antigens whose ...
A semi-logarithmic chart of laboratory-confirmed A(H1N1) influenza cases by date according to WHO reports. Mexico, USA, and Canada are shown as a breakdown of the total. In the United States, initial reports of atypical flu in two individuals in southern California led to the discovery of the virus by the Center for Disease Control in mid-April.
MANILA (Reuters) -The Philippines has closed schools down and warned of overloading on its power grid, as authorities across Southeast Asia issued a series of health alerts for a crushing and ...
The 2009 flu pandemic in Asia, part of an epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1 causing what has been commonly called swine flu, afflicted at least 394,133 people in Asia with 2,137 confirmed deaths: there were 1,035 deaths confirmed in India, 737 deaths in China, 415 deaths in Turkey, 192 deaths in Thailand, and 170 deaths in South Korea.
The H1N1 pandemic of 2009 was the first public health emergency of international concern designated by the World Health Organization. While H1N1/09 was the primary strain of flu seen that year, it was not unusually contagious or lethal. Most cases were mild, although those who had to be hospitalized were often severely ill.
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] As of 2009, identified SIV strains include influenza C and the subtypes of influenza A known as H1N1 ...