- 2009-05-02 (Sat) 2:59
- News Alert
Agriculture industry and the food agency had expressed concerns that the term “swine flu” was misleading consumers and needlessly causing countries to ban pork products and order the slaughter of pigs. Rather than calling this swine flu it’s going to stick with the technical scientific name H1N1 influenza A.
The swine flu virus (H1N1 influenza A) originated in pigs, and has genes from human, bird and pig viruses. Scientists don’t know exactly how it jumped to humans. In the current outbreak, WHO (World Health Organization) says the virus is being spread from human to human, not from contact with infected pigs.
Pity the poor pig. The otherwise estimable mammal has never had a very good rep — something about the mud, the snout, the oink. Now add the flu. It is easy to pin on the eponymous animal from which it emerged, but the fact is, the current epidemic is little more than an accident of evolution. If pigs are to blame, so too are birds and humans.
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