Swine Flu H1N1 Events

2009 Mar 28 Earliest Onset of Swine Flu in the United States
The details that I have are that the earliest onset was March 28 and that the more recent ones are, I believe, April 19. That may not be accurate and on our Web site we will have the acc...
2009 Apr 6 Local Officials Declare Health Alert in La Gloria, Veracruz, Mexico
Veratect reported local health officials declared a health alert due to a respiratory disease outbreak in La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State, Mexico. Sources characterized th...
2009 Apr 13 First Swine Flu Death in Mexico
The first swine flu death in Mexico occurred on 13 April, but mucus samples were not sent to the US Center for Diseases and Control until five days later. If this process had been quicker...
2009 Apr 23 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
OPERATOR: Good afternoon and thank you all for holding. At this time your lines have been placed on listen-only until we open up for questions and answers. Please be advised today's co...
2009 Apr 24 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
GLENN (ph): I’m a chief of media relations here at the Center for Disease Control Prevention, and we’re here to give an update on human swine food investigation and cases. With us today...
2009 Apr 24 Mexico City Closes Schools, Museums and Public Venues
Officials in Mexico City have shut down schools, museums and other public venues because of a swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 20 people and may be responsible for 40 other dea...
2009 Apr 24 World Health Organization - Swine Influenza - Update 1
The United States Government has reported seven confirmed human cases of Swine Influenza A/H1N1 in the USA (five in California and two in Texas) and nine suspect cases. All seven confirme...
2009 Apr 25 Update on the CDC Investigation of Human Cases of Swine Influenza
Glen Nowak: THANK YOU. AND THANKS TO ALL OF THE FOLKS WHO HAVE DIALED INTO TODAY OF THIS MEDIA AVAILABILITY OF CDC INVESTIGATION OF SWINE INFLUENZA. ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO NOTE FOR P...
2009 Apr 26 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
Dr. Anne Shuchat: GOOD AFTERNOON. I WANT TO FIRST GIVE YOU A FEW OPENING REMARKS, SOME BRIEF UPDATES AND THEN HAVE LOTS OF TIME FOR QUESTIONS WITH YOU. YOU KNOW, I THINK WE'VE BEEN SAYIN...
2009 Apr 26 World Health Organization - Swine Influenza - Update 2
As of 26 April 2009, the United States Government has reported 20 laboratory confirmed human cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 (8 in New York, 7 in California, 2 in Texas, 2 in Kansas and 1...
2009 Apr 27 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
THANK YOU, THIS IS GLEN NOWAK. I′M DIRECTOR OF MEDIA RELATIONS AT THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, AND WE WELCOME YOU TODAY ON THE BRIEFING FOR THE SWINE INFLUENZA. DR. BE...
2009 Apr 27 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Issues Travel Health Warning
CDC Recommendations At this time, CDC recommends that U.S. travelers avoid all nonessential travel to Mexico. Changes to this recommendation will be posted at http://wwwn.cdc.gov/trav...
2009 Apr 27 First Swine Flu Death in the United States
The United States confirmed the first death from swine flu outside of Mexico on Tuesday, adding urgency in the race to contain the influenza that has spread to more than seven countries. ...
2009 Apr 27 New York City High School Closed Due to Swine Flu
Tests show that eight students at a Queens high school are likely to have contracted the human swine flu virus that has struck Mexico and a small number of other people in the United Stat...
2009 Apr 27 President Obama Says Swine Flu is Cause for Concern, Not Panic
U.S. President Barack Obama says the threat of a swine flu epidemic is cause for concern, but not alarm. There have been 149 suspected swine flu deaths in Mexico but none in the United St...
2009 Apr 27 World Health Organization - Swine Influenza - Update 3
The current situation regarding the outbreak of swine influenza A(H1N1) is evolving rapidly. As of 27 April 2009, the United States Government has reported 40 laboratory confirmed human c...
2009 Apr 28 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
Before I start, I wanted to call the media's attention to three new e-mail addresses that we have brought online today to help us manage, as you can imagine, a relatively high volume of m...
2009 Apr 28 Cuba and Argentina Suspend Flights From Mexico
Cuba suspended flights to and from Mexico on Tuesday for the next 48 hours, becoming the first country to impose a travel ban in face of the fast-moving swine flu strain. The United St...
2009 Apr 28 New Zealand Confirms 3 Swine Flu Cases
New Zealand has confirmed three people have tested positive for swine flu - the first in the Asia-Pacific region. Eight more patients are awaiting test results and officials expect they t...
2009 Apr 28 World Health Organization - Swine influenza - Update 4
The situation continues to evolve rapidly. As of 19:15 GMT, 28 April 2009, seven countries have officially reported cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 infection. The United States Government...
2009 Apr 29 Egyptian Government Orders Slaughter of 300,000 Pigs
On Wednesday, the Egyptian government decided to immediately start slaughtering thousands of pigs in an attempt to avert the Swine Flu outbreak. According to the Mena news agency, Egy...
2009 Apr 29 Forth Worth School District Closes All Schools Due to Swine Flu
The Fort Worth school district, one of the largest in the state, announced Wednesday that it is closing all schools to prevent a possible spread of the swine flu. [Click image for a la...
2009 Apr 29 Three More New York City Schools Closed Due to Swine Flu
Three more Catholic schools here closed Wednesday because of suspected swine flu cases among at least 11 students, as officials said all those with confirmed cases are recovering, includi...
2009 Apr 29 Three Swine Flu Cases Identified in Maine
As of 12:30 PM April 29, 2009, 3 probable cases of H1N1 Influenza (“Swine Flu”) were identified in Maine. Two of the individuals are residents of Kennebec County and the third is a reside...
2009 Apr 29 United Kingdom Confirms Three Swine Flu Cases
A 12-year-old girl is one of three more people confirmed with swine flu, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today. The girl, from Torbay in Devon, a 41-year-old woman from Redditch and a...
2009 Apr 29 World Health Organization Swine Influenza - Update 5
The situation continues to evolve rapidly. As of 18:00 GMT, 29 April 2009, nine countries have officially reported 148 cases of swine influenza A/H1N1 infection. The United States Governm...
2009 Apr 29 World Health Organization (WHO) Raises Pandemic Alert to 5, Second Highest Level
The World Health Organization on Wednesday raised its pandemic alert to 5, its second-highest level, warning of widespread human infection from the swine flu outbreak that originated in M...
2009 Apr 30 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Briefing on the Investigation of Swine Flu
Welcome all to H1N1. You can imagine there's a lot of media interest and a lot of reporters calling in. So do limit yourself to one question. We will turn it over to Dr. Richard Besser...
2009 Apr 30 Four University of Delaware Students Confirmed with Swine Flu
The University of Delaware mobilized efforts to contain infection as the number of students with "probable" swine flu grew from four to 10. Classes went on as usual at the 20,000-stude...
2009 Apr 30 Swine Flu Spreads to 11 States
U.S. health authorities say at least 109 people in 11 U.S. states have been infected with swine flu. However, officials in the northeastern state of Maine confirmed three new infections, ...
2009 Apr 30 World Health Organization Swine Influenza - Update 6
The situation continues to evolve rapidly. As of 17:00 GMT, 30 April 2009, 11 countries have officially reported 257 cases of influenza A (H1N1) infection. The United States Government...
2009 May 1 Hong Kong Hotel Sealed Off Due to Swine Flu
Hong Kong has declared a public health emergency, following the first confirmed case of the Swine influenza A-H1N1 flu in the territory. In Hong Kong, the top health official vowed to app...
2009 May 5 Swine Flu (H1N1) downgraded by US Health and Human Services Secretary
U.S. health officials are no longer recommending that schools close for two weeks over suspected cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus. Hundreds of schools around the country had followed the gui...
2009 May 18 World Health Assembly Opens Amid Concerns About Flu Pandemic
The 62nd World Health Assembly opened today in Geneva, as officials from 193 member countries began their annual review of the activities of the WHO and set new priorities for the future....
2009 May 19 CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu
Anne Schuchat: Good afternoon, everyone. The H1N1 virus continues to circulate in the United States and in many other countries. As you know the World Health Assembly has been meeting thi...
2009 May 20 CDC and CDC Foundation Media Telebriefing Release Final Report of Expert Panel
Lola Russell: Good afternoon. My name is Lola Russell, as she said earlier, I am with the Centers for CDC press office. Today, the CDC and CDC Foundation will be holding a telebriefing ...
2009 May 22 Update on the Novel Influenza A H1N1 Virus and New Findings Published
Glen Nowak: Thank you, and my apologies to all the reporters who tried to call in, and ran into a dead line, as I understand it. We've been working with our phone services to fix that pr...
2009 May 26 CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu
Dave Daigle: Thank you Angie, this is Dave Daigle from CDC Media Relations. Today, we'll update the emergency response of the novel H1N1 flu outbreak with Dr. Anne Schuchat, our director...
2009 Jun 4 CDC Telebriefing on Investigation of Human Cases of H1N1 Flu
Joe Quimby: Good afternoon to everybody. I’m Joe Quimby from the Division of Media Relations here at the CDC. Thank you all for joining us. With us today to provide opening remarks, tak...
2009 Jun 7 New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin Quarantined In China
The mayor of the southern U.S. city of New Orleans has been placed under quarantine in China after a fellow passenger on his flight to the country exhibited flu-like symptoms. Mayor Ray N...
2009 Jun 8 More than 25,000 Swine Flu Cases According to the World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) says swine flu has now spread to 73 countries, with 139 deaths from the disease since it was first detected in April. The latest WHO figures, releas...
2009 Jun 11 H1N1 Virus Is Declared A Global Pandemic
Influenza A (H1N1) virus is a subtype of influenza A virus and the most common cause of influenza (flu) in humans. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of...
2009 Jun 11 World Health Organization raises H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) Alert to highest level
The World Health Organization has told its member nations it is declaring an H1N1 flu pandemic -- the first in 41 years. The move came Thursday as infections climbed in the United Stat...
2009 Jun 25 CDC Estimates that Number of Americans Infected with Swine Flu has Reached 1 Million
An estimated 1 million Americans have been infected with the H1N1 swine flu, which continues to produce mild illness and a fairly quick recovery in patients, U.S. health officials said Th...
2009 Jun 29 Several Articles in the New England Journal of Health Indicate that Swine Flu is More Dangerous For Younger People
With a worldwide pandemic under way and more than a million Americans sickened by the new swine flu, the special nature of this disease is becoming better understood. Several articles ...
2009 Jul 7 Florida Health Officials Announce Sixth H1N1 Flu-Related Death
Florida health officials said on Tuesday that a 19-year-old woman had died of the A/H1N1 flu in Orange County as the sixth victim of the virus in the state. "We continue to emphasi...
2009 Jul 7 Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization Holds Special Meeting to Discuss H1N1 Vaccine Recommendations
On 7 July 2009, the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization held an extraordinary meeting in Geneva to discuss issues and make recommendations related to vaccine for t...
2009 Jul 22 First Death in Hungary Caused by H1N1 Flu Virus
A 41-year-old man, the first Hungarian to die of the H1N1 flu virus, has passed away without showing any symptoms of swine flu, officials said Wednesday. Ferenc Falus, the Hungarian ch...
2009 Jul 22 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) Announces it will Begin a Series of Trials to Gain Insight into Vaccine Development
Scientists in a network of medical research institutions across the United States are set to begin a series of clinical trials to gather critical data about influenza vaccines, including ...
2009 Jul 28 Researchers Report on Study of of H1N1 Virus in Milwaukee
How severe is the H1N1 influenza? And why were there so many cases in Milwaukee this spring and summer? "The hardest and, globally, the most important question, is the severity," said ...