Humans May Give Swine Flu To Pigs In New Twist To Pandemic
Friday, July 10, 2009 - 08:14
in Health & Medicine
The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population. Researchers infected five pigs with the human strain of swine flu. Within four days the virus had spread to three uninfected pigs housed with the infected ones.