The Swine Flu Facts

AP reports: 
 
MEXICO CITY – No one has identified ground zero in the swine flu epidemic. Just where or when the new strain of influenza first jumped from a pig and began infecting people is a scientific mystery — one that a group of flu detectives is determined to solve.
Scientists are returning next week to La [...]

Swine influenza (aka flu) is a contagious respiratory disease that affects, and has common outbreaks with, pigs. It is caused by a type-A influenza virus. The current Swine strain that it has the WHO at a pandemic alert 4, appears to be new with a variation of the H1N1 virus – a mix of human [...]