Group4-h1n1

=Current H1N1 Flu Pandemic=

In this activity you will research the H1N1 Flu Pandemic to discover the answers to the following questions:

US Population at time of pandemic above 300 mil.
=Number of people that contracted the disease in the USA=

Number of people that contracted the disease in NC
Starting Sept. 27, 2009 North Carolina expanded reporting of flu deaths and hospitalizations to cover all hospitalizations for influenza-like illness (ILI) and all deaths related to influenza, whether seasonal flu or pandemic H1N1 flu. As of Sept. 26, 2009, a total of 13 deaths and 267 hospitalizations attributed to laboratory-confirmed pandemic H1N1 flu had been reported in North Carolina. For information about flu-associated hospitalizations and deaths since September 27, 2009, see the [|latest flu statistics for North Carolina].

Number of fatalities from the disease in the USA
Since April 2009, CDC has received reports of 326 laboratory-confirmed pediatric deaths: 277 due to 2009 H1N1, 47 pediatric deaths that were laboratory confirmed as influenza, but the flu virus subtype was not determined, and two pediatric deaths that were associated with seasonal influenza viruses. (Laboratory-confirmed deaths are thought to represent an undercount of the actual number. CDC has provided estimates about the number of 2009 H1N1 cases and related hospitalizations and deaths.

Number of fatalities from the disease in NC
As of July 24th, 2009 there are **483 confirmed cases of** Swine Flu (H1N1) in North Carolina

How did the disease start?
 The first Swine Flu (H1N1) case in North Carolina was confirmed on May 4th, 2009

From Newsweek magazine: Around Thanksgiving 2005 a teenage boy helped his brother-in-law butcher 31 pigs at a local Wisconsin slaughterhouse, and a week later the 17-year-old pinned down another pig while it was gutted. In the lead-up to the holidays the boy's family bought a chicken and kept the animal in their home, out of the harsh Sheboygan autumn. On Dec. 7, the teenager came down with the flu, suffering an illness that lasted three days. He visited a local clinic, then fully recovered, and nobody else in his family took ill.

This incident would hardly seem worth mentioning except that the influenza virus that infected the Wisconsin lad was unlike any previously seen. It appeared to be a mosaic of a wild-bird form of flu, a human type and a strain found in pigs. It was an H1N1 swine influenza. Largely ignored at the time, the Wisconsin virus was a step along the evolutionary tree, leading to a virus that four years later would stun the world. Flash-forward to April 2009, and young Édgar Enrique Hernández in faraway La Gloria, Mexico, suffers a bout of flu, found to be caused by a similar mosaic of swine/bird/human flu, also H1N1. And thousands of miles away in Cairo, the Egyptian government decides pigs are the source of disease, and orders 300,000 animals in the predominantly Muslim (therefore not pork-consuming) society slaughtered. By Laurie Garrett | NEWSWEEKPublished May 2, 2009From the magazine issue dated May 18, 2009

In June 2009, the [|World Health Organization] declared [|the new strain of swine-origin H1N1] as a [|pandemic]. This strain is often called **swine flu** by the public media.