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Preventions: Prevention of swine influenza has three components: 1. Prevention in swine 2. Prevention of transmission to humans 3. Prevention of its spread among humans Prevention in swine: The spread of swine influenza can be controlled by executing facility management, herd management and vaccination. Standard commercial swine flu vaccines are effective in controlling the infection, [...]

Transmission to humans People who work with poultry and swine, especially people with intense exposures, are at increased risk of zoonotic infection with influenza virus endemic in these animals, and constitute a population of human hosts in which zoonosis and reassortment can co-occur.Vaccination of these workers against influenza and surveillance for new influenza strains among [...]

Transmission between PIGS : Influenza is quite common in pigs, with about half of breeding pigs having been exposed to the virus in the US. Antibodies to the virus are also common in pigs in other countries.The main route of transmission is through direct contact between infected and uninfected animals. These close contacts are particularly [...]

Swinw flu transmission: How is swine flu transmitted ? Swine flu is transmitted just like any other flu. (Its symptoms are similar too.) So think of the usual cold/flu transmission vectors and you’re on the right path. Coughing, sneezing, touching, etc. The best way to avoid swine flu, and I swear, my doctor said as [...]

Swine flu cause: Usually swine flu does not affect humans, but the current outbreak is apparently not solely due to swine influenza virus. It is due to a new Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, which passes with apparent ease from human to human. It is important to realize that the influenza virus changes (mutates) constantly [...]

Swine flu History: Swine influenza was first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during the 1918 flu pandemic, when pigs became sick at the same time as humans. The first identification of an influenza virus as a cause of disease in pigs occurred about ten years later, in 1930. For the following [...]

SWINE FLU: What is swine flu? Swine flu (swine influenza) is a disease of pigs. Swine influenza (also called swine flu, hog flu, pig flu and sometimes, the swine) is an infection by any one of several types of swine influenza virus. Swine influenza virus (SIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses [...]

A safe and effective H1N1 swine flu vaccine was created and produced in record time but it still wasn’t ready when the U.S. pandemic peaked in early fall of 2009. Even so, by mid-December 2009, 28 million adults (13% of U.S. adults) and 18 million children (24% of U.S. children) had received the vaccine. When [...]