Who was the first person to get swine flu?

Answer 1

The first known person to have contracted the 2009 H1N1 Influenza in March 2009 was a young boy named Edgar Hernandez from La Gloria, Mexico, a small town of approximately 3,000 people. He recovered from the virus.

Answer 2

No. The first known person to have contracted the 2009 H1N1 Influenza in March 2009 was a young boy named Edgar Hernandez from La Gloria, Mexico, a small town of approximately 3,000 people. He recovered from the virus.

Answer 3

The first known person to have contracted the 2009 H1N1 Influenza was a young boy named Edgar Hernandez from La Gloria, a small town in southern Mexico. He survived the virus. The first man to have the Swine Flu is not identified, but it was likely someone else in La Gloria.

The 2009 pandemic of Influenza A, Novel H1N1 "swine flu" was first detected in Mexico City and was made public March 18, 2009. This new strain of virus has been tracked back to the above named child who was in close proximity to hog farms in the area and was likely the first individual infected.

The village, La Gloria, has about 3,000 people, and it is now believed the first human cases of the Novel H1N1 Influenza probably started there.

Answer 4

One superspreader may have been a 64-year-old doctor in China who traveled to Hong Kong in late February. Before he died in March, he is believed to have infected eight people on his floor at Hong Kong's Metropole Hotel.

"It's very likely this virus is usually spread by droplet transmission, but from time to time it may be embedded in a "superspreader" who may also spread the virus through airborne transmissions," said Dr. William Schaffner, chairman of the department of preventative medicine at Vanderbilt University, in Nashville, Tennessee.

Answer 5

Edgar Hernandez, a 5-year-old from the village of La Gloria in Veracruz state, was the first person confirmed to have contracted swine flu. He has since recovered.