What the hell is Swine Flu???

Swine flu (also known as swine influenza, swine flu and swine flu) is an infection by a number of animals using one of several types of microscopic organisms called "pig flu". Swine influenza A virus (SIV) is a strain of influenza virus of the family, which usually hosts (is endemic in) pigs. [2] of 2009, the known SIV strains are influenza C viruses and subtypes of influenza A virus known as H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2 and H2N3. Swine influenza is in pigs in the Midwestern United States (and occasionally in other states), Mexico, Canada, South America, Europe (including Britain, Sweden and Italy), Kenya, China, Taiwan, Japan and other parts of East Asia . [2]

Transmission of swine influenza viruses from pigs to humans is not common and not always lead to human flu, often in the production of antibodies in the blood. Meat from the animal, there is no risk of transmission of the virus, if properly prepared. If the transfer causes human influenza, it is a zoonotic swine influenza. People who have contact with pigs, especially those with intense exposures are at increased risk for the capture of swine influenza. In the middle of the 20th Century, the identification of influenza subtypes was possible, allowing a precise diagnosis of transmission to humans. For fifty confirmed transmissions were rare, these strains of swine influenza can be from person to person. In humans, the symptoms of swine flu control resemble those of influenza and influenza-like illness in general, chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort.

2009 swine flu outbreak in humans is by a new strain of influenza A virus subtype H1N1, the genes are closely related to swine influenza. [3] The origin of this new variety is unknown. But the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that this pressure has not been isolated in pigs. [4] This pressure can be from person to person, [5] and causes the usual symptoms of influenza. [6]

Pigs can be infected with human influenza, and this seems to happen during the 1918 influenza pandemic [citation needed] and the influenza outbreak of 2009 swine.