Very Interesting information about the Swine Flu that I really don't remember too many people caring about or being as concerned with as we are currently with The Chinese Virus:
The
2009 swine flu pandemic or
swine flu was an
influenza pandemic that lasted from January 2009 to August 2010, and the second of the two pandemics involving
H1N1 influenza virus (the first being the 1918–1920
Spanish flu pandemic), albeit a new strain. First described in April 2009, the virus appeared to be a new strain of H1N1, which resulted from a previous triple
reassortment of bird, swine, and human flu viruses further combined with a Eurasian pig flu virus,
[9] leading to the term "
swine flu".
[10] Some studies estimated that 11 to 21 percent of the global population at the time – or around 700 million to 1.4 billion people (out of a total of 6.8 billion) – contracted the illness. This was more than the number of people infected by the Spanish flu pandemic,
[6][11] but only
resulted in about 150,000 to 575,000 fatalities for the 2009 pandemic.[12] A follow-up study done in September 2010 showed that the risk of serious illness resulting from the 2009 H1N1 flu was no higher than that of the yearly seasonal flu.
[13] For comparison,
the WHO estimates that 250,000 to 500,000 people die of seasonal flu annually.[8]
Unlike most strains of influenza, the
Pandemic H1N1/09 virus does not disproportionately infect adults older than 60 years; this was an unusual and characteristic feature of the H1N1
pandemic.
