Monday, August 24, 2009


Swine affliction (also alleged barbarian flu, hog flu, and pig flu) is an infection by any one of several types of barbarian affliction virus. Barbarian affliction virus (SIV) is any ache of the affliction ancestors of bacilli that is ancient in pigs.[2] As of 2009, the accepted SIV strains cover affliction C and the subtypes of affliction A accepted as H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2, and H2N3.

Swine affliction virus is accepted throughout pig populations worldwide. Manual of the virus from pigs to bodies is not accepted and does not consistently advance to beastly influenza, generally consistent alone in the assembly of antibodies in the blood. If manual does could cause beastly influenza, it is alleged zoonotic barbarian flu. People with approved acknowledgment to pigs are at added accident of barbarian flu infection. The meat of an adulterated beastly poses no accident of infection if appropriately cooked.

During the mid-20th century, identification of affliction subtypes became possible, acceptance authentic analysis of manual to humans. Since then, alone 50 such transmissions accept been confirmed. These strains of barbarian flu rarely canyon from beastly to human. Symptoms of zoonotic barbarian flu in bodies are agnate to those of affliction and of influenza-like affliction in general, namely chills, fever, abscessed throat, beef pains, astringent headache, coughing, weakness and accepted discomfort.

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