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Three Pigs May Be the First in the U.S. With Swine Flu
« on: October 16, 2009, 10:50:56 PM »
No silly...

not those 3 little piggies...

three real pigs in Minnesota...




The rest of the article is at:   http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/17/us/17swine.html

From the article
Three pigs at the Minnesota State Fair tested positive in late August for H1N1, the flu virus that is causing the current pandemic, the Agriculture Department reported Friday. The department said the test results were preliminary and would not be confirmed for a few days. But if the results are confirmed, the pigs will be the first in this country found to harbor the virus. Infected pigs have been found in eight other countries.

The virus does not seem to make pigs very sick. Of 103 pigs tested at the Minnesota fair, in St Paul, only three were found to be carrying the virus, and all appeared healthy. They probably caught the virus from infected people, researchers said.

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