Was Swine Flu considered a pandemic?

The 2009 flu pandemic or swine flu was an influenza pandemic, and the second of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the first of them being the 1918 flu pandemic), albeit in a new version. read more

The 2009 H1N1 influenza (flu) pandemic occurred against a backdrop of pandemic response planning at all levels of government including years of developing, refining and regularly exercising response plans at the international, federal, state, local, and community levels. read more

The H1N1 flu pandemic was the first influenza pandemic to be declared since the 1968 outbreak of Hong Kong flu, which caused more than 750,000 deaths. However, despite the actuation of disease-control strategies determined to prevent the further spread of H1N1 flu, by late August 2009, six months into the outbreak, a total of 209,450 cases and nearly 2,200 deaths had been reported globally. read more