Is the swine airborne

Answer 1

My assumption is that you are asking "Is the Swine Flu airborne?", so my answer is, not exactly. It can be in the air for a short time period after someone with Swine Flu (Novel H1N1) coughs or sneezes, and it is on respiratory droplets in the air until the heavy drops fall to surfaces in an approximate six foot radius of the person with the flu (this is at most one or two minutes time). Since it can live on surfaces for two hours or more, touching those places where it settles can get the virus on your hands and then if you touch your own eyes, mouth, or nose you can transfer the virus to yourself and "catch" the flu. This is why there is so much stress on washing hands to prevent getting this flu. But it is not "airborne" in the medical sense of the word when it would stay in the air and move on air currents traveling much longer distances. Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your elbow (the crook of your arm) when you sneeze or cough to prevent giving it to those near you without also getting it on your hands to transfer to other places.

An answer on the lighter side:

Maybe that is how they got the saying, "When pigs fly"?