H1N1 and this flu season
When the H1N1 flu virus was first detected in the United States in April 2009, it set off all kinds of alarms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) activated its emergency operations center. The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak, which seemed to get started a month or two earlier in Mexico, to be a "public health emergency of international concern." By June, H1N1 was making people sick in over 70 countries, and the WHO officially declared that a pandemic was under way.
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