page_title: 2009 swine flu pandemic in Spain
section_title: Galicia
hierarchical_section_title: 2009 swine flu pandemic in Spain / Confirmed cases by autonomous community / Galicia
caption_attribution_description: Español: Mapa de extensión da gripe mexicana en Galicia
context_page_description: In March and April 2009, an outbreak of a new strain of influenza commonly referred to as swine flu infected many people in Mexico and parts of the United States causing severe illness in the former. The new strain was identified as a combination of several different strains of Influenzavirus A, subtype H1N1, including separate strains of this subtype circulating in humans and in pigs. Spain was the first country in continental Europe to report cases of swine flu, in late April 2009.
context_section_description: The first case of H1N1 in Galicia was recorded on 29 April 2009 in the province of Ourense, although it was not confirmed until several days later. The victim was a woman who had recently travelled to Mexico.
  Patients with similar symptoms to those of H1N1 had been recorded previously and were considered as possible cases at the time. The first was detected in Mos on 27 April 2009 in a middle-aged male patient who had arrived from Mexico several days beforehand. The first flu case in Spain was confirmed on the same day in Almansa, but was unrelated. On 1 May 2009 another new suspected case appeared in A Coruña, also in a Mexican person. Several days later these cases were confirmed to be unrelated to H1N1.
  On 27 August 2009 a 33-year-old male died in Vigo due to complications from flu, although he suffered from other serious conditions.
caption:   Deaths  Confirmed cases  Suspected cases  Formerly suspected cases
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