The incubation period, the time from when you're first exposed to the time you express symptoms, is usually 1-5 days, but can be as long as 60 days.

CNN: "The Secret Life of Germs" author Philip Tierno

Therefore the first causality was probably at the beginning of March 2009 taking into account the incubation period.

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