Is Swine Flu a microorganism causing disease?

Answer 1

No. It is a virus. Viruses are small (smaller than bacteria. You cannot view them with anything less than the Electron Microscope which I really doubt you will be allowed to use).They consist of a small outer chemical shell (similar to a cell wall, but its still even smaller) and inside is a fluid containing mutating strandss of RNA. The RNA is injected into the cells of your body by the virus, which then takes over the assaulted cell and mutates it. The RNA is also species specific. This means, it will only affecct humans, as that's what its RNA recognizes to react with. Similar to a computer program. However, in rare cases the virus itself will mutate and adapt to a new environment if exposed long enough. In this case the Swine Flu was infecting pigs in Mexico and south America. Farmers there were exposed to the virus and carried it. The virus did not know how to survive, so it mutated to allow itself to live in humans. Thus we have te swine flu.