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     The outbreak of swine flu that was first detected in Mexico was declared a global epidemic on June 11, 2009. It is the first worldwide epidemic  by the World Health Organization in 41 years.
     The heightened alert  an emergency meeting with flu experts in Geneva that assembled after a sharp rise in cases in Australia, and rising  in Britain, Japan, Chile and elsewhere.
     But the epidemic is "  " in severity, according to Margaret Chan, the organization's director general,  the overwhelming majority of patients experiencing only mild symptoms and a full recovery, often in the  of any medical treatment.
     The outbreak came to global  in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noticed an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths  healthy adults. As much of Mexico City shut down at the height of a panic, cases began to  in New York City, the southwestern United States and around the world.
     In the United States, new cases seemed to fade  warmer weather arrived. But in late September 2009, officials reported there was  flu activity in almost every state and that virtually all the  tested are the new swine flu, also known as (A) H1N1, not seasonal flu. In the U.S., it has  more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.
     Federal health officials  Tamiflu for children from the national stockpile and began  orders from the states for the new swine flu vaccine. The new vaccine, which is different from the annual flu vaccine, is  ahead of expectations. More than three million doses were to be made available in early October 2009, though most of those  doses were of the FluMist nasal spray type, which is not  for pregnant women, people over 50 or those with breathing difficulties, heart disease or several other  . But it was still possible to vaccinate people in other high-risk group: health care workers, people  infants and healthy young people.