Spanish to English translation
March 2, 2011
Sano local pork
There are no reported cases of H1N1
By Andrea Martinez / amartinez@elnuevodia.com
Since April 2009, all samples taken by the federal Agriculture Department in sick pigs tested negative for H1N1 strain of the active.
Robert Brady, USDA, for its acronym in English, "said" in Puerto Rico there is no case. " Brady, who testified at a hearing of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, said that 25 herds investigated by reports of sick pigs only five tested positive for a normal flu in pigs, but none to H1N1.
The epidemiologist Carlos H. Alberty Soto USDA, said that from January 2011 to present four cases analyzed were negative for known as swine flu. "
The agronomist Jorge L. Gonzalez Ortiz, College of Agricultural Sciences, Recinto Universitario de Mayaguez, University of Puerto Rico, noted that "in Puerto Rico there is no evidence that (H1N1a) is present in pig farms." He said people mistakenly called swine flu today as a "seasonal flu" when a thing has nothing to do with the other.
Resolution 440, Senator Luis Berdiel, sought to investigate the status of the "swine flu" in the country before the emergence in Mexico of a new strain called H1N1, type a.