Which Happened First?

2009 swine flu pandemic

2009 swine flu pandemic
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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 identified human case was in La Gloria, Mexico, a rural town in Veracruz.

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Which happened first?

Timeline

  1. 2002–2004 SARS outbreakNovember 16, 2002 – May 19, 2004
  2. 2009 swine flu pandemic (this page)March 2009 – August 10, 2010
  3. 2011 Germany E. coli O104:H4 outbreakMay 2011 – June 2011
  4. Western African Ebola virus epidemicDecember 2013 – June 2016
  5. 2015–16 Zika virus epidemicApril 2015 – November 2016
  6. 2018–2020 Kivu Ebola epidemicAugust 1, 2018

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