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The Domestic and International Impacts of the 2009-H1N1 Influenza a Pandemic: Global Challenges, Global Solutions - Workshop Summary
until June in Canton (Table A12-1; Cadbury, 1920; Chun, 1919; Shortridge, 1983). Infection there was mild, and no influenza deaths were recorded at the Canton Hospital. Consonant with the time of the Canton outbreak, more solid data come from Hong Kong 110km to the southeast, where influenza deaths abruptly started in June, continuing thereafter throughout the year (Table A12-2; Shortridge, 1983). The effects of the outbreak were most severe from 1918 to
June, outbreaks in pigs following northward human spread
North-east
October, pigs infected at same time as humans
South
Hong Kong, June, human deaths
2009-H1N1 influenza A human cases virologically confirmed (publicly available data)b
Mainland
5,592
September 9
Hong Kong
15,357
September 9
1st case May 1
Taiwan
94
September 9
Macao
1,435
September 9
Porcine infection not known to this time.
aAdapted from Cadbury (1920), Chun (1919), and Shortridge (1983).
bCHP (2009).
TABLE A12-2 Deaths Due to Influenza in Hong Kong for Each Month from 1918-1928
Month
Year
Monthly totals
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924
1925
1926
1927
1928
January
0
21
39
20
13
5
2
3
2
0
7
112
February
0
16
118
19
13
6
1
3
3
0
9
188
March
0
25
75
20
13
4
2
2
0
1
8
150
April
0
41
38
22
18
5
10
3
2
1
6
146
May
1
75
32
27
13
7
5
4
4
0
7
175
June
108
137
61
26
44
13
5
4
4
3
8
413
July
53
77
22
54
40
14
9
11
4
4
12
300
August
10
30
14
30
30
5
4
3
6
7
11
150
September
1
8
30
28
40
11
5
6
3
3
27
162
October
70
8
44
13
64
7
5
0
4
3
10
228
November
95
9
35
27
76
2
2
5
1
4
10
266
December
67
2
34
17
58
4
2
1
0
3
6
194
Totals
405
449
542
303
422
83
52
45
33
29
121
2,484
NOTE: These figures may not be accurate for the whole population since influenza was not notifiable, and were derived from those provided by the same hospital and practitioners.
