None. It has not been in the US so far.
Yes, each year in the US approximately 36,000 people die from the flu; most did not have a flu vaccination.
Yes, every year in the US the annual flu vaccine is made with three types of flu viruses, two Type A flu viruses and one Type B. This is true with the 2012-2013 vaccines. See the related questions for more information.
In the US in the 2012-2013 flu season, the H1N1/09 swine flu vaccine is included once again in the "regular" trivalent and quadravalent vaccines that have been prepared for the seasonal flu. No separate vaccination is needed.
So many that they literally told doctors and hospitals to stop reporting cases.
Many more have lived than died. In the US it is estimated that over a million people have now had the Novel H1N1 flu, with only 775 fatal cases out of those.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that more than57 million people in the US have had the Swine Flu since the beginning of the pandemic through February 2010.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has estimated that more than57 million people in the US have had the Swine Flu since the beginning of the pandemic through February 2010.
Asian Flu reached an epidemic in 1957, crossing the ocean and reaching the US. About 69,000 people died in the US that year from Asian Flu. For more iformation see the link to the Wikipedia page for this topic (under Related Links).
The spanish flu virus is believed to have started in Asia like most of the flu viruses, and then made its way to the US where it may have mutated on the way to become the pandemic Spanish flu of 1918. During this time of WW1, as soldiers were coming back to the US from war zones across the world and others were being sent from the US into the war, the virus spread to hundreds of millions of people in the US and worldwide. It did not originate in Spain. It is called the Spanish flu only because that is how most people first heard about it, from Spanish newspapers that, unlike newspapers in many other countries, continued to publish and get distributed throughout the war.
Friend Us - 2013 People Like Us 1-2 was released on: USA: 2 December 2013
Yes, in the 2011-2012 flu season in the US, the FDA approved seasonal flu vaccines that protect against the three types of flu that will most likely be infecting people this year, which includes the H1N1/09 swine flu vaccine.