Swine influenza (also called swine flu, hog flu, and pig flu) is an infection of a host animal by any one of several specific types of microscopic organisms called "swine influenza virus". A swine influenza virus (SIV) is any strain of the influenza family of viruses that is usually hosted by (is endemic in) pigs. As of 2009, the known SIV strains are the influenza C virus and the subtypes of the influenza A virus known as H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2, and H2N3. Swine influenza is common in pigs in the midwestern United States (and occasionally in other states), Mexico, Canada, South America, Europe (including the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Italy), Kenya, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and other parts of eastern Asia.
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RT @kylee_nichols: I'm a little jealous that all these kids got to have such an awesome DC trip without getting the swine flu 🐷😷
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Source: The News-Herald
A Department of Homeland Security police officer patrols with his dog outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston, Mass., Wednesday, May 1, 2013. NEW YORK — A Harvard Medical School research assistant who has s ...
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Source: The Huffington Post
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Source: MSN India
Soon after the death of the patient, health officials ordered a thorough screening of people who had been in touch with her during treatment, and Tamiflu was administered to them Lucknow: A woman died here of swine flu late Friday, hea ...
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Source: Detroit News Online
Dear Dr. Roach: My son-in-law, age 48, suffered for a week with what he thought was the flu. Then he started having trouble catching his breath. He went to the emergency room and was admitted with what was diagnosed as double pneumonia. He ...
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Source: Southern California Public Radio
Elephant seals on a beach along California’s central coast in San Simeon Calif. Researchers have detected swine flu in elephant seals off the Central California coast, saying it was the first time a human pandemic strain has been found ...
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Source: Scientific American
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Source: PR Newswire
BEIJING, May 17, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Nasdaq: SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, today announced that it will release its unaudited financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, ...
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Source: MedicineNet
After the human H1N1 influenza pandemic began in 2009, researchers from the University of California, Davis, detected the virus in free-ranging northern elephant seals off the central California coastline. "We thought we might find influenza viruses, whi ...
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