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There are different effects of the Swine Flu that can be fatal. The most common and most rapid is the respiratory failure. But other causes of death are pneumonia causing sepsis, high fever causing neurological problems, and dehydration and electrolyte imbalance.
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∙ 11y agoMost of the time you get the flu is when someone sneezes on you of if someone coughs on you
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∙ 14y agoAt the momment the only possible ways of catching the virus is airborn and sneezin or coughin
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∙ 11y agoThe same way all influenza viruses are spread. See the related questions below.
For information on what caused the swine flu to develop in the first place, see the related questions.
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∙ 10y agobecause they are outside to much trying to be cute and get sick or walk around the house with no shoes on there feet
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∙ 14y agoBy breathing
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What part of Africa did the Swine Flu start?
Swine flu began in China. Pigs (swine ) live with humans thus "swine" flu mutated and transferred to humans.
What is swine flu?
Swine Flu is a new strain of flu that originates from pigs and can travel to Humans. It started in Mexico
Why do people say oink oink when they have swine flu?
because a swine is a pig and pigs go oink oink. Also that were the virus started, pigs passed it on to humans.
Are pigs to blame for Swine Flu?
Pigs are no more to blame for swine flu than humans are for the common cold.
What is the definiton of a flu that originates in animals and infects humans?
Diseases passed to humans from animals are called zoonoses.
Is influenza caused by birds?
The Avian "Bird" flu is passed to humans by birds and their saliva and feces. Other forms of influenza that humans can get are also mutations of viruses that birds have had, some are from pigs (like swine flu) and many are from a combination of various swine, human, other, and bird flu strains that "reassort" in a host animal. For more information about how a new strain of the flu can be created through reassortant, see the related question below about what caused the 2009 Swine flu.
What are the breeds of swine?
The breeds of the Swine Flu were pigs. They carried diseases which were unknown until humans caught it.
Are swine flu symptoms in animals the same as humans?
Only pigs.
What infectious agent is involved in Swine Flu?
"Swine flu" is a viral infection of swine (pigs). There is evidence that this virus is the same that infected humans in the 1918 pandemic. It has been labeled the N1H1. There has been controversy that the flu now is a variant of this 1918 flu. We are not sure where it started: pigs or humans? "Swine flu" H1N1 virus produces similar influenza-like illnesses. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue and some diarrhea and vomiting. The present H1N1 virus is not zoonotic swine flu, as it is not transmitted from pigs to humans, but from person to person.
Is the Swine Flu in Oregon Salem yet?
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Are the flu and Swine Flu the same?
No, Swine Flu is just one strain of the many flu viruses. Flu is an abbreviation for influenza. So Swine Flu is a type of flu, but all flu is not the swine flu, there are other kinds.
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.
