2026 Japanese flu (Juan)

The 2026 Japanese flu was an influenza pandemic that was first reported by Japan in 2026 and lasted until 2029. The outbreak in Japan started in August 2026. The pandemic mostly affected a population younger than 20 or 18 years of age, and resulted in approximately 1,260,500 deaths worldwide according to some estimate. It was caused by an H1N1 flu strain which highly resembled a virus strain circulating worldwide from 2024.
==Origins==
===Japan===
The origins date back to August 9, 2026, in Japan, almost a month after the World Cup hosted in North America. On June 26, Japan was returning from a loss to Mexico on penalties, and the national team was returning to the country. Just a month later, on July 25, in Sendai, the people was discovered that, in a restaurant, there was a person with possible flu symptoms; this was not taken very seriously, and people thought that it was not a problem serious enough to trigger a possible epidemic, or even a global pandemic like COVID-19. The next day, there were 11 people with almost the same symptoms as the previous day's event; This seemed strange to the Japanese people, so they reported the problem to the emergency services in order to rule out suspicions. Everything was going well, until August 7, when 58 people were reported with the same symptoms, and that was not all, but it was discovered that there was an outbreak of influenza in the area of the first suspected case. Just two days later, it was reported that 19 more infections were reported in the Japanese capital, Tokyo. On that day, the disease was declared an epidemic.
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A month after the epidemic was confirmed in Japan, on September 4, information was given to the World Health Organization (WHO) about what happened in Sendai, Tokyo and Kagoshima, which 16 days ago had reported another 23 infections, then a state of emergency was given around the world, but nevertheless, some flights were on their way to Japan to other parts of the world. China was a country that was mainly between Brazil, Argentina, Italy, Australia, the USA and France, and then there was another list of flights to other countries such as Spain, Mexico, South Africa, India, Turkey, South Korea, and only one to Guatemala, but few parts of the world, like Guatemala, were already prepared for the arrival of the new virus to the entire world.
===Brazil===
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Brazil was the first country outside Japan to record the first case of the Japanese flu, as the pandemic was named. The first case was confirmed in Rio de Janeiro, just after celebrating the sixth World Cup won by Brazil, as the celebration was long and with almost the entire city waiting for the team led by Neymar and Casemiro. Just a few days after the celebration, 36 cases of the flu were confirmed in just one day. In just one day! The city's doctors tested those 36 people, and discovered that the flu had arrived in Brazil. In just one week, the virus had reached Sao Paulo and the Brazilian capital, Brasilia, and another week later, to the entire coast of the country, and cities such as Recife, Sergipe, Fortaleza, Florianópolis, Salvador de Bahia, among others.
===Turkey===
Another of the Japanese flights was on its way to Turkey, exactly to Istanbul; September 17 arrived, and the next day, the virus infected 7 people, and the Turkish government declared quarantine for at least 15 days to find out if the disease was still continuing. Surprisingly, at the end of those 15 days, 49 people were confirmed infected, and since Turkey was a place visited by many tourists, flights to other countries that had not yet received infections were canceled. However, on October 6, more than 116 cases of the virus were confirmed in almost all of Turkey, then roads were closed, social isolation was declared, but the disease continued to spread.
===South Africa===
South Africa was also one of the first countries to receive infections of the disease, the first being in Johannesburg, on September 19, and social isolation was also declared to find out if it continued to spread. By Sept. 30, 131 cases had been confirmed, 25 more than Turkey, and the government took the same measures as were taken during the COVID-19 pandemic. But the disease had reached Namibia and Mozambique, from the borders with South Africa, and the virus continued to spreading throughout Africa until it reached from Egypt to Morocco, the entire continent.
==Worldwide==
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===North America===
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Canada map (Juan).png|Map of Canada by number of confirmed cases by province and territory
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 USA map (Juan).png|Map of the United States by number of confirmed cases by state
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Mexico map (Juan).png|Map of Mexico by number of confirmed cases by state
===Central America===
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Guatemala map (Juan).png|Map of Guatemala by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Belize map (Juan).png|Map of Belize by number of confirmed cases by district
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 El Salvador map (Juan).png|Map of El Salvador by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Honduras map (Juan).png|Map of Honduras by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Nicaragua map (Juan).png|Map of Nicaragua by number of confirmed cases by department and its two autonomous regions
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Costa Rica map (Juan).png|Map of Costa Rica by number of confirmed cases by province
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Panama map (Juan).png|Map of Panama by number of confirmed cases by province and indigenous regions
===South America===
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Colombia map (Juan).png|Map of Colombia by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Venezuela map (Juan).png|Map of Venezuela by number of confirmed cases by state
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Ecuador map (Juan).png|Map of Ecuador by number of confirmed cases by province
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Guyana map (Juan).png|Map of Guyana by number of confirmed cases by region
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Suriname map (Juan).png|Map of Suriname by number of confirmed cases by district
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 French Guiana map (Juan).png|Map of French Guiana by number of confirmed cases by canton
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Peru map (Juan).png|Map of Peru by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Bolivia map (Juan).png|Map of Bolivia by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Brazil map (Juan).png|Map of Brazil by number of confirmed cases by state
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Paraguay map (Juan).png|Map of Paraguay by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Uruguay map (Juan).png|Map of Uruguay by number of confirmed cases by department
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Chile map (Juan).png|Map of Chile by number of confirmed cases by region
File:H1N1 pandemic 2026-29 Argentina map (Juan).png|Map of Argentina by number of confirmed cases by province (incluiding Falklands)
===Insular America===
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===Europe===
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===Africa===
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===Asia===
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===Oceania===
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