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Originally posted by dreamseeker
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I found this article on the swine flu. It is an illness that comes from pigs. I read in another article that 204 people in China got this and 38 died. That is an 18.6% mortality rate. As you can see the date was 2005 before this outbreak. The article furthmore states that human infections are rare. What is the difference between our current swine flu, H1N1 and this diease; is it the same thing. If it is then we may have bigger problems than intially thought. I am trying to do some research on the swine flu and the odd thing is I get articles dating before 2009. I know they said they do not believe the current strain came from pigs but they called it swine flu for a reason. I did a search before I posted to make sure this was not covered yet. Has anyone heard of Streptococcus suis? How relevant is it the current outbreak? It makes me wander why this virus spread so rapidly when it is rare in humans in the first place.
Originally posted by dreamseeker
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
Thank you so much. I knew that I could get some straight forward answers on this. This information makes a lot of sense to me and clears it up. I know the internet is not always a realiable source. I have found in my 34 years of life that sometimes the sources we rely on like the news media etc are not correct. If there was link between the strep suis infection and H1N1 that really would complicate matters. I am glad that is not the case.