2009 flu pandemic Facts for Kids

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2009 flu pandemic
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Disease	Influenza
Virus strain	Pandemic H1N1/09 virus
Location	Worldwide except for Antarctica.
First case	Possible Central Mexico then the United States
Arrival date	January 2009 (Earliest case)
Origin	Veracruz, Mexico; North America.
Confirmed cases	According to the laboratory (widespread)
Suspected cases^‡	700 million-1.4 billion cases
Recovered	Unknown due to the spread have been highly.
Deaths	150,000–575,000 (Estaimated 284,000 deaths by the WHO) {Around 18,000 deaths due to the people that did not test}
Territories	More than 200 countries.
^‡ Suspected cases have not been confirmed as being due to this strain by laboratory tests, although some other strains may have been ruled out.

The 2009 flu pandemic or swine flu was an influenza pandemic that lasted from early 2009 to late 2010, and the second of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the first of them being the 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic).

First described in April 2009, the virus appeared to be a new strain of H1N1 which resulted when a previous triple reassortment of bird, swine and human flu viruses.

It is said that 11–21% of the then global population (of about 6.8 billion), or around 700 million–1.4 billion people (Suspect cases) had the illness — more than the Spanish flu pandemic.

However, with about 150,000–575,000 fatalities, it had a much lower case fatality rate of 0.01-0.08%.

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Mexican soldiers distributing protective masks to citizens
President Barack Obama being vaccinated against H1N1 flu on 20 December 2009
Flu inspection on a flight arriving in China
Thermal imaging camera and screen, photographed in an airport terminal in Greece. Thermal imaging can detect elevated body temperature, one of the signs of swine flu.
Mexico City Metro
Osaka Loop Line, Japan
President Obama at Homeland Security Council meeting in Cabinet Room to discuss the H1N1 flu on 1 May 2009

2009 flu pandemic facts for kids

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