Compared with the figure in 2009, a much bigger number of deaths was reported in 2012 based on the CDC ’ s ________. When the United States 2009 H1N1 swine flu started , an international emergency, a declared global pandemic, it eventually infected 60 million and initially killed a minimum of 18,449 cases that year. But the final story of the H1N1 global pandemic was far worse than that, with close to 300,000 deaths, according to the final tallies in 2012 reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).