H1N1 in 2009: Lessons from America

The Argentinian specialist Dr Carlos Juan Perfumo has been analysing particular features of the so-called ‘Mexican flu’ pandemic, which occurred in 2009. He warns that the virus has been undernotified, ignored or hidden, not only in America, but in the whole world.     Just a brief recap: April 2009 saw the emergence of a new type of influenza, quickly branded as ‘swine flu’ in conventional media. The new type, nowadays named H1N1 2009, mainly caused disease in