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| WHO figures chart of progression [2] |
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This is a table containing the figures from the WHO Influenza A Situation Updates issued in April 2009 roughly once a day. [1] Where more than one update was issued in a day, the figures are from the last update that day. The table can by sorted by country, date of first confirmed case or date of first confirmed case by continent.
This presentation of the data in these and other tables shows the progression, peaks, and, eventually, decline of the epidemic in each country and continent.
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| By date | By cont. | Country | 24 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
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| 0 | 0 | World | 25 | 38 | 73 | 105 | 148 | 257 |
| 0 | 0 | Days to double (approx) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Countries | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 11 |
| 1 | 1.01 |  | 18 | 18 | 26 | 26 | 26 | 97 |
| 2 | 1.02 |  | 7 | 20 | 40 | 64 | 91 | 109 |
| 3 | 1.03 |  | 6 | 6 | 13 | 19 | ||
| 4 | 2.01 |  | 1 | 2 | 4 | 13 | ||
| 7 | 2.02 |  | 2 | 5 | 8 | |||
| 9 | 2.03 |  | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 8 | 2.04 |  | 3 | 3 | ||||
| 10 | 2.05 |  | 1 | |||||
| 11 | 2.06 |  | 1 | |||||
| 6 | 3.01 |  | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||
| 5 | 4.01 |  | 3 | 3 | 3 | |||
| By date | By cont. | Country | 27 | 30 |
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| 0 | 0 | World | 6 | 8 |
| 0 | 0 | Countries | 1 | 2 |
| 1 | 1.01 | | 6 | 7 |
| 2 | 1.02 | | 1 | |
An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads across a large region and infects a large proportion of the population. There have been five in the last 140 years, with the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic being the most severe; this pandemic is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of 50–100 million people. The most recent, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, resulted in under a million deaths and is considered relatively mild. These pandemics occur irregularly.
The global spread of H5N1 influenza in birds is considered a significant pandemic threat. While other H5N1 influenza strains are known, they are significantly different on a genetic level from a recent, highly pathogenic, emergent strain of H5N1, which was able to achieve hitherto unprecedented global spread in 2008. The H5N1 strain is a fast-mutating, highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAI) found in multiple bird species. It is both epizootic and panzootic. Unless otherwise indicated, "H5N1" in this timeline refers to the recent highly pathogenic strain of H5N1.
The global spread of H5N1 in birds is considered a significant pandemic threat.
The 2009 flu pandemic in the United States was caused by a novel strain of the Influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", that was first detected on 15 April 2009. While the 2009 H1N1 virus strain was commonly referred to as "swine flu", there is no evidence that it is endemic to pigs or of transmission from pigs to people; instead, the virus spreads from person to person. On June 6, the World Health Organization and the Obama administration declared a public health emergency.
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