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Economic impact. People in Mexico City wear masks on a train due to the swine flu outbreak, April 2009. The outbreak increased the strain on an economy already under pressure from the current economic crisis. Although the World Bank said it would extend Mexico $25 million in loans for immediate aid and $180 million in long-term assistance, [ 41 ...
The 2009 flu pandemic in South America was part of a global epidemic in 2009 of a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1, causing what has been commonly called swine flu. As of 9 June 2009, the virus had affected at least 2,000 people in South America, with at least 4 confirmed deaths. On 3 May 2009, the first case of the flu in South ...
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 identified ...
The markets responded last week to the outbreak of swine flu that started in Mexico and expanded to the U.S and now it is officially a pandemic. Swine flu has reached 74 countries, infecting ...
As the swine flu epidemic has moved from Mexico to Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and Spain, global financial markets are already feeling the effects of the outbreak. In the United ...
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 ...
In the 2009 swine flu pandemic, researchers observed that strains in humans were similar to those seen in pigs – which is how swine flu derives its common name. It would be more appropriate to ...
The first two cases in the Dominican Republic were confirmed on 27 May. [329] By 7 June 93 cases had been confirmed, primarily mild infections. [330] As of 7 July 2009, 33 cases were confirmed in Jamaica. Health Minister Ruddy Spencer told Parliament that the country had been placed on high alert.