On 22 June 2020 the International Health Regualtions IHR Focal Point FP of Brazil shared a preliminary report with the Panamerican Health Organization the WHO Regional Office for the Americas of a human infection with Influenza A H1N2 variant virus A H1N2 v According to the report the patient a 22 year old female with no comorbidities worked in a swine slaughterhouse in Ibipor Municipality Paran State and developed an influenza like illness on 12 April 2020 The patient initially sought medical care on 14 April and a respiratory specimen was obtained on 16 April as part of routine surveillance activities The patient was treated with oseltamivir was not hospitalized and has recovered A real time RT PCR test conducted at the public health laboratory identified a non subtypable influenza A virus In May 2020 the specimen was forwarded to the Laboratory of Respiratory Virus and Measles Oswaldo Cruz Institute FIOCRUZ per its acronym in Portuguese a national influenza reference laboratory in Rio de Janeiro On 22 June genetic sequencing characterized this virus as an influenza A H1N2 v virus