2009 Disasters in the United States - 2009 Natural Disasters in the United States, Aviation Accidents and Incidents in the United States in 2009 (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: 2009 natural disasters in the United States, Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 2009, 2009 flu pandemic in the United States by state, Northwest Airlines Flight 253, US Airways Flight 1549, February 2009 tornado outbreak, May 2009 Southern Midwest Derecho, Colgan Air Flight 3407, 2009 California wildfires, 2009 Hudson River mid-air collision, June 2009 Washington Metro train collision, North American blizzard of 2009, 2009 Mount Redoubt eruptive activity, 2009 Montana Pilatus PC-12 crash, Timeline of airliner bombing attacks, 2009 Southeastern United States floods, Mid-February 2009 tornado outbreak, 2009 North American Christmas winter storm, July 2009 Mid-Atlantic tornadoes, Northwest Airlines Flight 188, 2009 South Central United States heat wave, 2009 California mid-air collision, 2009 Midwest Blizzard, Southwest Airlines Flight 2294, June 2009 Southern Kentucky derecho. Excerpt: 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 (CDC) 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 13,837 deaths ...