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The 2009 (H1N1) Pandemic First isolated from humans in Mexico and the USA. Caused approximately 0.5–1 million deaths worldwide. Shared striking similarities with the 1918 pandemic virus.

Emergency room visits with influenza are now "very high" nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday, in this week's update on the winter respiratory virus season.

A 13-year-old girl in Canada became so sick with H5N1, or bird flu, in late 2024 that she had to be put on a ventilator. Around the same time, a senior in Louisiana was diagnosed with the first ...

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Dec. 13, 2024 — Influenza or flu virus remains infectious in refrigerated raw milk for up to five days, according to a new study. The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a ...

An average of 4,469 flu patients were in beds in England each day last week, including 211 in critical care. This is up 17 per cent from 3,818 the previous week, when 184 were in critical care.

The 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus is thought to have started in domestic pigs in central Mexico. On October 30, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), part of the U.S. Department of ...

Hospital admissions in Scotland caused by flu have increased by 12% in a week, new figures show. Public Health Scotland (PHS) has described the amount of laboratory confirmed influenza this winter ...

A warning has been issued after numbers of cases of people hospitalised with flu quadrupled in just weeks. The number of people in hospital with flu in England is continuing to rise and is more ...

The number of people with flu in hospital in England has quadrupled over the past month and is rising "at a very concerning rate", NHS chiefs have warned. Latest data shows there were 5,000 ...

particularly the H1N1 type of the virus. And we're at similar levels that we saw in the winter of two years ago. The second measure looks at flu in hospital patients. We can see a spike in the ...