Swine Influenza or swine flu is a contagious respiratory disease of pigs, caused by a type A influenza virus. Type A influenza viruses can affect a range of other animals and humans. Like all influenza viruses, swine flu viruses change or mutate constantly. Over the years, different variants of swine flu viruses have emerged, and [...]

The bizarre case started on 24 October when Sang Heui Seo, a researcher at Chungnam National University in Daejeon, deposited in GenBank partial RNA sequences from a series of viruses isolated from pigs. Niman, a molecular biologist and former Harvard surgery instructor with an intense interest in virus evolution, discovered them soon after they were [...]

What is Swine Influenza? Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza virus. Swine influenza viruses may circulate among swine throughout the year, but most outbreaks occur during the late fall and winter months similar to outbreaks in humans.
Can humans catch swine flu? Swine flu viruses do not [...]

Swine flu is a respiratory disease and has some elements of a virus found in pigs. There is no evidence of this disease circulating in pigs in the UK and scientists are investigating its origins.
Swine flu has been confirmed in a number of countries and it is spreading from human to human, which could lead [...]

What is swine influenza?
Swine flu is a respiratory infection caused by influenza viruses that regularly cause outbreaks in pigs. There have been reports of serious illness and deaths due to swine flu in Mexico, but the recently confirmed cases in the United States have been mild.
What are the symptoms of swine influenza?
Swine flu symptoms appear [...]

Pandemic influenza is a global outbreak of disease that occurs when a new strain of influenza virus appears, which causes serious illness and death in humans and is easily spread from person to person. In recent weeks, there have been multiple cases of Swine-origin Influenza Type A/H1N1. This new strain is unique; and has not [...]

Influenza A H1N1 (swine flu) has spread around the world with what has, at times, felt like horrifying speed, but there is a feeling that many of us have dodged a bullet. Of the 2384 laboratory-confirmed cases reported in 24 countries, as TLID went to press, there had been 44 deaths, 42 of which were [...]

What is “Swine” flu? Swine Influenza (swine fl u) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine fl u viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the [...]

Prevent the spread of H1N1 (Swine Flu)
The novel H1N1 (Swine flu) virus is causing illness in the United States and around the world. Experts expect it to continue to spread. Much has been learned, but we continue to learn more every day.
The symptoms of this new H1N1 (Swine flu) virus are similar to symptoms of [...]

Swine influenza is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses and has a major economic impact on the swine industry in the United States. Flu outbreaks in pigs are common, especially during winter months. Swine flu can result in high rates of illness in herds.
High fevers in infected pigs are common, [...]

A whole country or group of people may be singled out as the source of the problem rather than the germ. Right now, Mexico and, more broadly, Spanish-speaking people are seen by some as the “cause” of 2009 H1N1 (“swine flu”).
Preventing stigma is not simply altruistic; it is “enlightened self-interest.” Historically, people in scapegoat groups [...]

A vaccine against the newly emerging strain of H1N1 could stop or slow its spread, and thus reduce its impact on health services, workplaces, schools and the economy. Since this virus differs markedly from previous strains of H1N1, existing flu vaccines will not work against it and a new vaccine needs to be developed.
Several different [...]