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The big event and a major point of conflict in the series is a swine flu pandemic that decimated the alternate (Prime) Earth in 1996, killing half a billion people.
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Jernigan said, referring to the 2009 swine flu outbreak.
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His rationale is revenge, alleging that our side unleashed a swine flu pandemic that decimated their Earth, killing over half a billion people.
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The hospitalization rates at the season’s peak were the highest the state had seen since the 2009 swine flu pandemic.
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That peak level of intensity was the highest seen since the swine flu pandemic of 2009.
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Tamiflu, which generated more than $3 billion in sales when swine flu sparked a global contagion in 2009, reduces the duration of illness by only up to a day if it’s taken within the first 48 hours of the onset of symptoms.
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The intense 2009 swine flu pandemic, which sent demand for vaccines soaring, was followed by several mild flu years.
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And many of those investments paid off in helping to manage swine flu, avian flu, Middle East respiratory syndrome, Ebola, and Zika.
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First Known Use of swine flu
1921
Medical Dictionary
swine flu
medical Definition of swine flu
- Among the swine flu cases in the United States, none had had any contact with pigs …
- —Marc Lacey and Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times, 25 Apr. 2009
- As swine flu spreads from person to person around the world, it is most often being transmitted by coughing or sneezing …
- —Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal, 29 Sept. 2009
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