This particular strain of influenza is especially easily transmitted from human to human. All it would have required was that one person who had the flu entered the country and it began spreading from there. Since international travel is so common now, there was little that could be done to prevent the world wide spread into a pandemic.
Yes the entire world has been affected by it
As of July 6, 2009, there were 1059 confirmed cases and 3 deaths.
Swine Flu is a new strain of flu that originates from pigs and can travel to Humans. It started in Mexico
A mixture of the standard Human Flu, Bird Flu and Pig Flu. This creates a new strain of flu called swine flu (Influenza A H1 N1).
As of April 27 2009 3 cases have been reported (from a total of 11 people returning from a trip to Mexico) Click on the link below for the latest updates on swine flu from the CDC:
Knowing about the swine flu is important because it is a new strain of flu, resistant to most medications. Although the death toll is the same of the normal flu, it needed a new vaccine.
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As of 1/12/10 the number of cumulative reported cases in New Zealand is 3198 and the number of deaths reported to have been due to A-H1N1/09 infections is 22.
No, Swine Flu is just one strain of the many flu viruses. Flu is an abbreviation for influenza. So Swine Flu is a type of flu, but all flu is not the swine flu, there are other kinds.
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The swine flu is PURPLE. :]
It was a swine that got swine flu first.See the related question below for information about the first person with swine flu.