pig tests + for H1N1

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http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-ac...tests-positive-for-h1n1-flu-government-691811


Argentina Pig Tests Positive For H1N1 Flu - Government

Thursday June 25th, 2009 / 18h27



BUENOS AIRES -(Dow Jones)- A pig in Argentina has tested positive for the H1N1 flu, or swine flu, the director of the animal health and sanitation service Senasa said Thursday.
The animal has recovered but hogs from surrounding areas are being tested for signs of the disease, Jorge Amaya told local news channel C5N.
As no outside animals had been moved into the area recently, Senasa is working on the theory that the pig was made sick through contact with an infected human, Amaya said.
Argentina has been one of the most seriously affected countries in South America by the flu.
The government is considering taking sweeping measures to control the disease. About two dozen deaths have been attributed to the disease, which appears to be spreading rapidly in the midst of the southern hemisphere's winter.
-By Shane Romig, Dow Jones Newswires; 54-11-4103-6738;

 

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Re: pig tests + for H1N1

Swine H1N1 in swine is pretty common. However, the sequence of pandemic H1N1 is easily distinguished from earlier swine isolates, so a partial sequence ( few hundred BP) of H1 or N1 would be definitive.

 

[mixin]

Re: pig tests + for H1N1

Apparently swine flu is uncommon in Argentina pigs. I found this article this morning and it's translated from Spanish. I've included the link; but once articles leave the front page, they seem to disappear.

In part: Senasa confirmed that the virus was in pigs

While common in other countries is that the pigs from contracting influenza, in Argentina is "exotic." This is explained N?poli Augustine, president of the Professional Board of Veterinary Medical and holder of the chair of Pigs. Senasa since confirmed that in recent years in the country there were only a few isolated cases of influenza in pigs.

http://translate.google.com/transla...nfluenza+humana+A+H1N1+M%C3%A9xico&hl=en&sa=G

 

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Re: pig tests + for H1N1

It is possible that a pig was co-infected with Pandemic H1N1 and some other flu strain and they recombined to form a more virulent pandemic strain. I had kind of hoped that if a more deadly form of the disease emerged that it could be contact traced back to patient 0 and all of the transmission chains stopped, but I don't think anyone got there fast enough if this is indeed the case. Let's hope the high number of deaths is an anomaly.