"Man-Bites-Hog" story...
Posted on 05/03/2009 8:08:13 PM PDT by melt
A farm worker in Canada has infected a herd of pigs with swine flu, the first documented case of the virus being passed from human beings to animals.
The herd of pigs tested positive for the H1N1 virus after the worker returned from Mexico with the disease. The herd has been quarantined.
Brian Evans, a senior official from Canada’s food safety agency, said that up to 200 pigs had been infected at the Alberta Farm, and that both the man and pigs are recovering, adding that the virus did not seem to have spread.
He emphasised that there was no food safety concern related to this finding. "The chance that these pigs could transfer virus to a person is remote," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
"Man-Bites-Hog" story...
Of course, to the pigs, it’s known as the dreaded “human flu.”
crud
How’d you do that?
unsafe sex has consequences.
It’s a goft, er, gift.
No seriously. How did you change the way the apostrophe looks?
I didn’t do anything. It’s FR’s auto-HTML. Try doing a preview, then spilchk, then preview again. The encoding can get a bit crazy. HTH
Notice how Left Wing influenced institutions are shutting schools, etc. down to ‘prevent’ the spread of the h1n1 ‘swine’ flu virus, not to mention the out of bounds scare campaign by the WH & mass media regarding this particular virus which epidemiologists categorize as ‘mild’ in its effects, yet they are not willing to do anything nearly so drastic to prevent the spread of HIV? Another example of the Left’s inconsistency and hypocrisy.
HIV spreads far slowly and is far less communicable than influenza. You get the latter by breathing the air in which an infected person has coughed into.
Enter: ..... the chicken or the egg.
No, we don’t need to close no stinking borders.
"What if?!?...Oh NOEZ!!!"
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.