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How swine flu is transmitted |
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Swine Flu or the H1N1
Influenza as the white-coats like to call it, is actually quite a
simple disease to attain a good measure of protection against, even if
the disease has a fearsome reputation. A little familiarity with the
ways in which swine flu passes around should help everyone take the
right steps. Swine flu is a term that is quite common around pig farms
for a Type A influenza that has always affected populations of pigs.
Hog lots, places where large numbers of pigs are raised for slaughter,
happen to offer regular contact between pigs and their human
caretakers. The H1N1 virus is suspected to have made the leap from an
ability to merely infect pigs to the ability to infect humans in just
such a place in Mexico earlier this year when a major swine flu
epidemic swept the country.
The influenza that the H1N1 virus is capable of, is known to be
contagious, though the severity of the contagiousness is not
well-established. A WHO release states that this virus is known to have
jumped the species barrier more than once in the past. To a virus that
has demonstrated such an ability to cross the species hurdle in the
past, person-to-person transfer is suspected to be no challenge. Swine
flu is believed to spread among |
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