page_title: 2009 swine flu pandemic in the United States by state
section_title: Massachusetts
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 swine flu pandemic in the United States by state / Massachusetts
caption_attribution_description: English: I created this image myself using the Paintbrush program. The original is located here and created by UniReb.
context_page_description: The United States experienced the beginnings of a pandemic of a novel strain of the influenza A/H1N1 virus, commonly referred to as "swine flu", in the spring of 2009. The earliest reported cases in the US began appearing in late March 2009 in California, then spreading to infect people in Texas, New York, and other states by mid-April. Early cases were associated with recent travel to Mexico; many were students who had traveled to Mexico for Spring Break. This spread continued across the country's population and by the end of May there were approximately 0 confirmed cases throughout all 50 states.
  On April 28, 2009, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the first official US death of swine flu, a 23-month-old toddler from Mexico who died on April 27 while visiting Texas.
  By June 24, 132 deaths had been attributed to the virus.
  As of January 11, 2010, at least 554,000 deaths were attributed to the virus worldwide, and at least 12,469 deaths in the US were confirmed to be due to the virus. The CDC suspects, however, that the total number of deaths in the US is much higher than the official total, as some deaths probably went unconfirmed.
context_section_description: There are 1,398 confirmed cases in Massachusetts, 172 of which have led to hospitalizations. The first death from swine flu in Massachusetts occurred on June 14, 2009 when a 30-year-old Boston woman died. Eleven deaths have been confirmed as being caused by the H1N1 virus in total.
caption: As of 11:00 EDT, June 6, 2009:
    Death(s) confirmed  Case(s) confirmed  Case(s) unconfirmed (both suspected and probable cases)
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