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No alarm after positive flu check on pig
Staff Reporter
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Centre for Food Safety has ruled out any cause for alarm after a pig tested positive for the human swine flu virus H1N1.
The center said the positive sample was found from among 1,500 pigs at the Sheung Shui slaughterhouse during a regular surveillance program that took place from mid-October until January.
It added that the virus, which caused the 2009 pandemic, does not pose any public health or food safety risk.
The center said 27 samples which contained the swine flu virus had also picked up some genes of the human swine influenza virus.
From these samples two were detected as having the swine influenza H3N2, while the remaining 25 samples had H1N2.
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University of Hong Kong microbiologist Malik Peiris is in charge of the surveillance program.
He said the detection of the pandemic H1N1 virus in pigs is not a surprise, given the wide transmission of the pandemic virus in humans...
No alarm after positive flu check on pig
Staff Reporter
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Centre for Food Safety has ruled out any cause for alarm after a pig tested positive for the human swine flu virus H1N1.
The center said the positive sample was found from among 1,500 pigs at the Sheung Shui slaughterhouse during a regular surveillance program that took place from mid-October until January.
It added that the virus, which caused the 2009 pandemic, does not pose any public health or food safety risk.
The center said 27 samples which contained the swine flu virus had also picked up some genes of the human swine influenza virus.
From these samples two were detected as having the swine influenza H3N2, while the remaining 25 samples had H1N2.
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University of Hong Kong microbiologist Malik Peiris is in charge of the surveillance program.
He said the detection of the pandemic H1N1 virus in pigs is not a surprise, given the wide transmission of the pandemic virus in humans...