Posted on 11/05/2009 9:51:18 AM PST by mlizzy
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday that pigs in a commercial herd in Indiana have tested positive for swine flu, making it the first time the virus has been found in such hogs. The USDA said it discovered four tissue samples that tested positive for the virus using its swine surveillance program. The sample was collected in late October, and the USDA said the pigs as well as the people caring for the animals have recovered. Last month, tests confirmed that several show pigs at the Minnesota State Fair contracted swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus. The USDA declined to say where in Indiana the sick pigs were located. USDA officials have stressed repeatedly that instances of pigs with swine flu do not pose a threat to consumers of pork products.
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People should stop eating pork entirely. They should run through the streets flailing their arms wildly and scream and avoid all pork until the price for pork at my local grocery store drops to rock bottom levels and my freezer is completely full.
mad cow....bird flu....swine flu....i think its just a plot to turn us all into veggie eaters....
So . . . let me understand this. A Swine got the flu?
So this makes three different animals that H1N1 has now been confirmed to have infected.....pigs, cats, and ferrets. I wonder if this is an indication that this virus is able to mutate fairly easily.
If hogs are becoming infected, maybe that strain of H1N1 should be called the human flu.
LOL!
Let’s remember that all the hoopla is indeed about H1N1-A SOI, wherein the SOI stands for swine origin influenza.
It is not, therefore, news that swine are infected with the virus. Swine herds ARE the original vector of this virus.
Oh the humanity.
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Now that I think of it though, my son in law is part owner in one of those large sheet metal buildings that houses something like 5,000 pigs as they grow from small to medium in size before being shipped off to a different facility. I wonder if it will affect him.
They sure get a lot of liquid fertilizer out of that place.
Pork steaks are always around .99 cents a lb. Ditto for pork shoulder roasts.
Pork chops are about $ 1.39 a lb.
My freezer stays well stocked.
I read that it is. But then, who knows what or who to believe any more on this thing.
Ain’t that the truth!
Spring 2008 one of my grandkids 4H pig died and quite a few others around the county, I’ve wondered if they died of H1N1.
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