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29 kwi 2009 · By WHO standards, a Phase 5 alert means there’s sustained human-to-human spread in at least two countries. It also indicates that efforts to produce a vaccine will be accelerated. At last...
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).
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 , H1N2 , H2N1, H3N1 , H3N2 , and H2N3 .
14 sie 2016 · H1N1 influenza, referred to as swine flu, is a highly contagious respiratory disease in pigs caused by one of several swine influenza A viruses, as recently reviewed. [1, 2] Transmission of...
On 29 April the WHO raised the worldwide pandemic phase to 5. [116] On 11 June 2009 the WHO raised the worldwide pandemic phase to 6, which means that the H1N1 swine flu has reached pandemic proportions, with nearly 30,000 confirmed cases worldwide. [117]
14 cze 2009 · A Nature paper published online last week, underlines the importance of surveillance of flu viruses in swine as a means of detecting strains with pandemic potential.
13 cze 2024 · Given the potential threat of such swine influenza viruses to humans, we created a decision tree to guide the characterization and pandemic risk assessment of endemic swine IAV (Fig. 2).
