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You can get the flu if someone around you who has the flu coughs or sneezes. You can get the flu simply by touching a surface like a telephone or door knob that has been contaminated by a touch from someone who has the flu. The viruses can pass through the air and can enter your body through your nose or mouth. If you've touched a contaminated surface, they can pass from your hand to your nose or mouth.
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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.
Is Flu contagious?
Yes, some strains are highly contagious in humans, such as the H1N1/09 pandemic Swine Flu. Others, like the Avian (bird) flu, are not easily transmitted from person to person. Transmission of the bird flu from human to human is extremely rare.
How does the flu effect homeostasis in the human body?
The flu creates a negative feedback within the human body. When you have the flu, your body temperature will rise in an attempt to kill the virus. However, while your body continues to heat up, you will sweat to ensure your body doesn't overheat. Once the virus is gone, your body will resume taking care of itself.
How can the bird flu travel?
It usually is transmitted directly to humans from birds in their saliva or feces. It is very rare to begin with in humans and only rarely is transmitted from human to human. Birds transmit it to each other in feces and saliva and direct contact.
What is xenozoonosis?
Xenozoonosis is an infectious disease transmitted from animal to human by transplantation of animal tissue into a human body.
What is bird flu and can it be transmitted to humans?
People can get bird flu fairly easily from contact with sick birds or their saliva or feces. This is very rare worldwide, however, so far. Additionally, it is almost never passed from human to human, only very rare cases have been reported to have been transmitted that way. It is a property of the individual influenza viruses that determines how easily it is transmitted. H1N1/09, for example, is very contagious and easily transmitted from person to person, while H5N1 is not.
What animal did the spanish flu come from?
Pigs spread the original swine flu virus among themselves. The mutation, known as the 2009 Swine Flu (Influenza A, Novel H1N1 virus), that is now a human virus is spread by humans. It is a mutation of the swine flu and avian (bird flu) that has combined with a human virus.
What is the most common threat to the human body from an invading virus?
Swine Flu or scientifically pronounced (H1N1)
What are the three animals where the Swine Flu evolved?
well it started with the avion flu which mixed with swine flu (the origoinal non-human effecting) then with human flu
Is the bird flu deadly?
Yes, people can catch it from contact with the excrement or saliva of infected birds. It can be passed from human to human but only very rarely and only when they are living in very close physical contact, e.g., living in the same home.
Is Swine Flu contagious?
Yes, Swine Flu is an infectious disease and can be transmitted to others. (see Related Question below for details)
Can a human get Swine Flu from a pig?
Yes. There are guidelines released that give specifics on protecting farm workers, pig breeders, pig competitors at breed shows, etc. on preventing the spread from pigs to people and from people to pigs. See below.
