Pigs Catch Smithfield Farms CAFO Flu!
A pig herd in central Alberta has been infected with the virus after human contact.
Now after denials from the pig industry that the virus had anything to do with their products, and Egypt was harshly criticized for over reacting in it’s decision to destroy hundreds of thousands of pigs located in their country, a farm worker returning to Canada from Mexico has transmitted the infection to pigs.
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I thought the pork industry was saying that you couldn’t catch swine flu (oh, sorry, H1N1) from eating pork, not that the virus had nothing to do with pigs. I mean, I thought the whole term “swine flu” came from the fact that the virus originally came from contact with infected pigs. *shrug* Did I miss something?
Hi Harmony, thanks for stopping by!
The food industry didn’t want this virus associated with it’s products, so it wanted a name that didn’t refer to it’s animals.
The last excuse I heard was the term swine flu was too generic, so they were using H1N1 to refer to the specific strain.