# What Happened to H1N1 Swine Flu? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2010, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641 "2010-01-20T01:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![smokebillowing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@smokebillowing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smokebillowing)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2010, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641/41 "2010-01-22T03:09:28Z")
I got a letter through the post today offering a vaccination 🙂 no trotters for moi… ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641/42 "2010-01-23T04:47:05Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > What difference does it make when they die? Seriously? Because it’s too early to tell what the final stats will be given we haven’t passed the time of year when most people have died of flu each year. 8,000 died during what is usually the off-season for the flu, but we won’t know until May if this flu is unusual because it causes the bulk of deaths at a different time of year, or if those 8,000 deaths will be in addition to the typical 40,000 deaths we see with other flus. Saying definitively that “only 8,000” died of this flu right now is like deciding the outcome of a ballgame during the 5th inning. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641/43 "2010-01-23T05:03:52Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > **ralph** , do you even bother reading newspapers? He would answer your question, but as well as not reading newspapers, he also frequently fails to return to threads that he starts. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2010, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641/44 "2010-01-23T05:59:11Z")
> [@elfkin477](#): > > Saying definitively that “only 8,000” died of this flu right now is like deciding the outcome of a ballgame during the 5th inning. Well, **Marxxx** isn’t entirely wrong, because in terms of [pediatric deaths](http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2009-2010/IPD02.htm) we already know that this ball game was a blow out. The fact that ultimately this flu season may turn out to be relatively mild in terms of overall deaths really is irrelevant when discussing a virus that was clearly a killer. Maybe with 20/20 hindsight, it wasn’t quite as bad as it might have been, but that’s some pretty good hindsight. We have no idea what this flu season would have been like had people not gotten vaccinated or slightly changed their routines. The only real danger is that people will come to believe that this was all hysterics, so that when the next warning comes out, they feel justified in ignoring it. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2023, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641/45 "2023-07-28T03:10:47Z")
> **['Swine flu' strain has passed from humans to swine nearly 400 times since...](https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-07-swine-flu-strain-humans.html)** > > A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic—pdm09—shows that the virus has passed from humans to swine about 370 times since 2009, and subsequent circulation in swine has resulted in the evolution of pdm09 variants... The study: > **[Reverse-zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses and evolution in...](https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1011476)** > > Author summary The diversity and evolution of influenza A virus (IAV) in pigs is linked to the emergence of IAV with zoonotic potential. Human-to-swine transmission of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic (pdm09) IAV lineage repeatedly occurred across the past... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-happened-to-h1n1-swine-flu/525641.md?page=2)