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  • CDC: 4 people in NC test positive for Tamiflu-resistant swine flu, first such US cluster

    Nov 20th, 2009 - Newser

    Four North Carolina patients at a single hospital tested positive for a type of swine flu that is resistant to Tamiflu, health officials said Friday. The cases reported...

  • Swine Flu Declining in Some Parts of US

    Nov 20th, 2009 - US News

    FRIDAY, Nov. 20 (HealthDay News) -- Some areas of the United States are seeing declines in H1N1 swine flu activity, a federal health official said Friday, and while the disease remains widespread in 43 states...

  • Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 cases reported in N.C.

    Nov 20th, 2009 - MSNBC

    Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 cases reported in N.C.The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the Northern Hemisphere, global health officials said on Friday, but they cautioned it was far from over. Officials...

  • Swine Flu May Be Peaking In US

    Nov 20th, 2009 - New York Times

    Filed at 4:27 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pandemic of swine flu may be hitting a peak in the United States, health experts said on Friday. But they stressed that influenza, especially a pandemic, could hit several peaks in a single season...

  • UPDATE 1-Swine flu may be peaking in US, reports indicate

    Nov 20th, 2009 - Reuters

    (For more flu stories click on [ID:nWORLDFLU]) * CDC checking on Tamiflu-resistant cases * 171 confirmed child deaths * 54 million doses of vaccine packaged or given (Adds CDC investigation into drug-resistant cases) WASHINGTON...

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  • Plague or Plan? Ukraine's...
    British scientists suspect that swine flu virus has mutated in Ukraine. Some doctors say that flu in the country has shown unprecedented symptoms, creating the effect of burnt lungs, the Daily Mail reports ...
  • CrossTalk: Swine flu blood money
    In this edition of CrossTalk Peter Lavelle asks his guests to discuss whether swine flu is really different than ordinary flu or if it is really only about big drug companies looking for hefty profits.
  • Swine Flu Song
    I felt it was only appropriate to put something up in response to all the coverage of the recent Swine Flu outbreak. Pigs are getting a bad rap on this one. The government is supposedly renaming the virus to H1-N1 ...
  • H1N1 (Swine Flu)
    In this video, Dr. Joe Bresee with the CDC Influenza Division describes swine flu - its signs and symptoms, how it's transmitted, medicines to treat it, steps people can take to protect themselves from it ...
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Swine Flu from WikiPedia:

Swine influenza (also called swine flu, hog flu, pig flu and sometimes, the swine) is an infection by any one of several types of swine influenza virus. Swine influenza virus (SIV) is any strain of the Orthomyxoviridae that is endemic in pigs. As of 2009, the known SIV strains include influenza C and the subtypes of Influenza A virus known as H1N1, H1N2, H3N1, H3N2, and H2N3.

Swine influenza virus is common throughout pig populations worldwide. Transmission of the virus from pigs to humans is not common and does not always lead to human influenza, often resulting only in the production of antibodies in the blood. If transmission does cause human influenza, it is called zoonotic swine flu. People with regular exposure to pigs are at increased risk of swine flu infection. The meat of an infected animal poses no risk of infection when properly cooked.

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