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It would have probably happened when the infected swine's saliva, respiratory droplets from sneezing or coughing, or other bodily fluids came in contact with the boy's mucous membranes, which is the typical method of transmission of this influenza virus between people and between people and animals. The boy may have been too close when the pig sneezed and then inhaled the droplets, or may have touched the pig or something in the pig pen or barn that had the respiratory droplets on it and then touched his own mouth, eyes or nose before washing his hands thoroughly. Although he is believed to have been the first infected human, there is also the possibility that he was not the first and that he actually got it from someone else who was in contact with the pig or pig's environment but did not report the illness or could have had mild symptoms and didn't even realize she had the flu.
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Where did swine flu emerge from?
Swine, is a type of pig, so the flu came from a pig
If you kiss a pig will you get Swine Flu?
it matters if it has the swin flu
How did the pig get on the roof?
it flew ((flu)swine flu) lol
What is diffarance between swine and pig?
They are the same thing. as you know the swine flu is going around so its allso a pig flu i think
Does seijun have Swine Flu?
Yes he is a pig
What is the origin of the name swine lu?
Swine flu was first discovered in people working with pigs. Flu is a disease that is transmitted in various forms among people, pigs, and birds. Sometimes bird flu is transmitted to pigs, and sometime pig flu is transmitted to people. What actually happens is that a pig has pig flu and catches bird flu. A chromosome from the bird flu gets mixed with the pig flu and changes it to a different type of flu. Then a person with human flu catches pig flu. A chromosome with pig and perhaps bird flu mixes with the human flu. The flu is mainly human flu but contains pig and bird flu chromosomes. It got the name swine flu because people working with pigs caught it first. Because it has the pig and bird chromosomes, people with resistance to human flu, have less resistance to swine flu.
Does Swine Flu harm pigs?
no the swine flu does not harm pigs, it wasnt even suppose to be able to get to humans just pig to pig but a farmer got it in mexico.
Where from did Swine Flu develop in India?
Swine flu was first found in huge US owned pig farms in Mexico.
What types of flu create the Swine Flu?
A mixture of the standard Human Flu, Bird Flu and Pig Flu. This creates a new strain of flu called swine flu (Influenza A H1 N1).
Whats the joke where the punch line is Pig-gy?
What's the difference between bird flu and pig flu? If you have bird flu, you need tweetment. If you have swine flu, you need pig-gy
Swine flu from which type of pig wild or domestic?
Its not from pigs.
Did the current strain of Swine Flu start in a pig?
It is not from swine, never was, never will. It merely RESEMBLES what swine have. There aren't any proven cases that it was transmitted from a pig or anything to a human being. Source: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/qa.htm
