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The 2009 flu pandemic or swine flu was an influenza pandemic and the second of the two pandemics involving H1N1 influenza virus (the first of them being the 1918 flu pandemic) albeit in a new version. First described in April 2009 the virus appeared to be a new strain of H1N1 which resulted when a previous triple reassortment of bird swine and human flu viruses further combined with a Eurasian pig flu virus leading to the term swine flu.
