2009: H5N1 virus confirmed as the cause of death for a 3-year-old boy from Đồng Tháp Province, Vietnam. March 21, 2009: State media reported H5N1 might be the cause of a death of a female in Bạc Liêu, Vietnam. April April 24, 2009: H5N1 virus confirmed as the cause of death for a 23-year-old woman from Thanh Hóa, Vietnam. June July 1, 2009: Three cases of H5N1 were confirmed in Egypt, all three of whom recovered. 2010 February February 22, 2010: First case of H5N1 in birds confirmed in Bhutan in the district of Chhukha. 2011 June June 16, 2011: Five cases of H5N1 were confirmed in Egypt, three of which were fatal. December December 20, 2011: Details of research on H5N1 on mutations which enable its transmission to ferrets —the standard mammalian model for influenza research— are requested by the U.S. National Security Advisory Board for Biotechnology (NSABB) to be redacted due to concerns over bioterrorism potential. 2012 February February 7, 2012: H5N1 is discovered again in crows in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. February 17, 2012: WHO decides in a two-day meeting held in Geneva, Switzerland that additional analysis of public health and security risks is needed to determine whether research on man-made H5N1 virus capable of aerosol transmission between mammals (ferrets) should be released in full. May May 26, 2012: A 10-year-old girl is to said to have died in the southwestern Kampong Speu province, Cambodia. According to the WHO in a joint statement with the Cambodian health ministry, the girl had developed shortness of breath and a fever on May 20 and died on Sunday May 27. 2014 January January 3, 2014: An Alberta, Canada resident dies of H5N1 after returning from Beijing, China and feeling unwell on a return flight from Beijing to Vancouver (Air Canada 030) and Vancouver to Edmonton (Air Canada 244) on December 27, 2013 and hospitalized on January 1, 2014; this is the first case in Canada and North America. 2022 January January 2022: The first cases of H5N1 in birds were detected in farms in Central Luzon in the Philippines. Suidae (pigs) Avian influenza virus H3N2 is endemic in pigs ("swine flu") in China and has been detected in pigs in Vietnam, increasing fears of the emergence of new variant strains. Health experts say pigs can carry human influenza viruses, which can combine (i.e. exchange homologous genome sub-units by genetic reassortment) with