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The outbreak was first registered in the Federal District of Mexico City, which began monitoring a large rise in cases of influenza-like illness and seasonal flu with normal symptoms, which began on March 18 . Mexican authorities surge was due to ” a strange flu before April 21,, when the Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention U.S. program because of two mutually independent new cases of swine influenza as reported in the media..

The first two cases were identified (and confirmed) as swine flu in two children living in the United States in San Diego and Imperial County, who became ill on 28 and 30 March . This new strain was quickly confirmed in Mexico. News about the connection with the outbreak strain were sounded in a live broadcast of news in Mexico, April 23, 2009.

In March and April 2009 there were over 1000 cases of suspicious patients of swine influenza in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. states. The strain was extremely contagious in Mexico, causing 81 confirmed deaths, mostly in Mexico, but have also been reported of such cases in the states of San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Queretaro, Mexico City, all in central Mexico ]. Some cases in Mexico and the U.S. have been confirmed by the World Health Organization as a previously unknown strains of H1N1 . The victims of the disease in Mexico were mostly adults from 25 to 45 years – This was a distinguishing trait of pandemic influenza. A new strain of swine flu was confirmed in 16 cases of deaths, and at least 100 other cases are analyzed in the laboratory at 24 April 2009 . Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova on April 24, said: “We are taking measures in connection with a new influenza virus, forming the respiratory epidemic, which already controlled”

* April 27, 2009 World Health Organization raised the degree of danger to the 4-level , and already on April 30 at an emergency meeting, the level was raised to 5th deadly disease on planet

* May 3, 2009 Minister of Health of Mexico, Jose Angel Codru said that the peak of the epidemic of swine flu is increasing more rapidly.

* Nevertheless, the spread of swine influenza in the world continued. By 9 May the epidemic has reached Japan and Australia,

  • 11 June WHO announced the introduction of the sixth, the maximum level of the pandemic threat in connection with the rapid spread of influenza across the world.

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