Where did influenza start?

Answer 1

If you mean where did it originate, nobody knows. It's caused by a fast-mutating virus and was probably infecting people and animals a long time before it became virulent enough to cause alarm.

Each new year's "flu" starts with millions of Chinese pigs, which incubate it. The pigs pass the virus to ducks (Chinese eat both pork and poultry) Tame ducks pass it to wild ducks and they spread it around the world. People also incubate and infect, so it wouldn't extinquish the flu to kill all the pigs and ducks, even if that could be done.

Answer 2

Well i really don't know but in my moms work people have been saying that this one lady who came from Canada to Mexico that in the plane that she was in she had infected people with her desease .but we all have to be in ALERT PLEASE DONT PANIC i sugjest to go out and buy u know can foods and lots of water and eat your vitamins because doctors says that it helps you prevent the virus. i think that this is gods plan in The Bible it says that a disease was gonna come and infect people that there was gonna be very few survivors because the world is gonna end. but JUST PLEASE DONT PANIC AND ALSO THIS IS KIND OF LIKE THAT MOVIE STARRING Will Smith I AM LEGEND YAH ITS KIND OF LIKE THAT WHERE THERE VERY FEW SURVIVORS. WELL THATS IT I WILL KEEP WRITTING MORE INFO IF I CAN JUST DONT PANIC BE ALERT AND THINK OF IT THIS WAY WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE SOME DAY RIGHT I WAS SCARED TO BUT NOW IM INTERSTED IN HELPING PEOPLE WITH THIS WERE GONNA GET THROUG THIS.

SINCERLY,ANGY

Answer 3

Mexico's agriculture department said in May 2009 that the Novel H1N1 influenza strain that now has infected people in all countries of the world, a true pandemic, did not originate from hogs at a Smithfield Foods operation. This pork production farm facility had been singled out by some, including critics of modern pork production, as the source of the A-H1N1 flu virus.

Test results by the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, Ranching, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) confirmed that the novel A-H1N1 virus was not in pigs at the Granjas Carroll de México farm in Veracruz. The pigs also tested negative for other viruses.

By Elizabeth Landau CNN

(CNN) -- While investigators trudge through pig farms and remote villages in Mexico, searching for clues about the new Swine Flu, answers about the virus' origin may finally appear on a computer, based on genetic codes.

At the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Columbia University, researchers are using public databases to trace the origins of the 2009 H1N1 virus. They've found that the closest relatives to the new virus are viruses that were isolated from pigs in the United States in the past few years.

Their analysis, recently published in Eurosurveillance, suggests that the virus has at least two swine ancestors, one of them related to a virus isolated in North America in 1998.

Still, the relatives are distant, and it's premature to conclude that the virus came from the United States based on this analysis, said Raul Rabadan, study co-author and assistant professor at Columbia.

The first recorded and confirmed cases of the Pandemic H1N1 influenza "Swine Flu/09" were in Mexico and the United States (see the related questions below for more information on this Pandemic Flu).

Answer 4

China began the influenza. Some people said that it is a disease. It was spread coming to Europe and America.

Answer 5

It started to spread during the war on 1918.

Answer 6

Mostly from MAMMALS

Answer 7

January19 - February 9