SWINEMADE09

Swine flu infects people every year and is found typically in people who have been in contact with pigs, although there have been cases people give it to people Symptoms include fever, disorientation, stiffness of the joints, vomiting, and loss of consciousness ending in death. Swine influenza is known to be caused by influenza . Swine flu viruses typically sicken pigs, not humans. Most cases occur when people come in contact with infected pigs or contaminated objects moving from people to pigs. Pigs can catch human and avian or bird flu. When flu viruses from different species infect pigs, they can mix inside the pig and new, mixed viruses can emerge.Pigs can pass mutated viruses back to humans and they can be passed from human to human. Transmission among humans is thought to occur in the same way as seasonal flu - by touching something with flu viruses and then touching their mouth or nose, and through coughing or sneezing ]

Panic as swine flu death toll hits 103
By: BangkokPost.com and AFP Published: 27/04/2009 at 04:19 PM

Panic as swine flu death toll hits 103 On Monday in mexico the death toll had hit 103 deaths and it is still rising. In Mexico the rising death toll a sent a wave of fear to the untied states.The increasing cases of swine flu has made the untied states clamp down on border potrol. In tiland theyare using themal imaging systems to examen people to see if they have flu like symtems. Tialand,China and Russia have banded toghther and have stop importing pork products from mexic. 5 US states have reported 20 cases of swine flue. The number of suspected cases in Mexico has reached 1,614, up from 1,324, the health minister said.

February 5, 1976, an army recruit told his drill instructor at Fort Dix that he felt tired and weak but not sick enough to see military medics or skip a big training hike. Within 24 hours, the soldier was dead, killed by an influenza not seen since the plague of 1918-19, which took 500,000 American lives and 20 million worldwide. Two weeks after the recruit's death, health officials disclosed to America that something called "swine flu" had killed Lewis and hospitalized four of his fellow soldiers at the Army base in Burlington County.The ominous name of the flu alone was enough to touch off civilian fear of an epidemic. And government doctors knew from tests conducted the death of 500 soldiers were caused by the swine flu.