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2009 swine flu pandemic has been listed as one of the Natural sciences good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
October 4, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed
September 22, 2010	Good article reassessment	Kept

News items involving this article were featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "In the news" column on April 25, 2009, June 11, 2009, and August 13, 2010.

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Text and/or other creative content from 2009 flu pandemic was copied or moved into Pandemic H1N1/09 virus with this edit. The former page's history now serves to provide attribution for that content in the latter page, and it must not be deleted as long as the latter page exists.

This article has been viewed enough times in a single week to appear in the Top 25 Report 3 times. The weeks in which this happened:

This article has been mentioned by multiple media organizations:

Jose Antonio Vargas (April 30, 2009). "Feds Go Online to Brief Masses About Swine Flu". Washington Post.
(none) (August 17, 2009). "The 50 most-viewed Wikipedia articles in 2009 and 2008". The Daily Telegraph.

This article contains a summary of 2009 swine flu outbreak by country, 2009 swine flu outbreak timeline, H1N1/Influenza/A/B96.3, and 2009 flu pandemic vaccine.