The A(H1N1) swine flu virus has struck a pig farm in Buenos Aires province in Argentina—the second known instance of the pandemic virus infecting pigs.
The outbreak was announced in a statement by Argentina’s food safety agency SENASA on Wednesday; yesterday, Dow Jones Newswires reported that at least five animals have tested positive for the virus so far. It’s not clear where the virus came from, but “we have a very strong hypothesis” that the pigs were infected by a human, SENASA Director Jorge Amaya said in a television interview, since no pigs had been introduced to the farm for at least 60 days. The number of reported human cases in Argentina is rising rapidly, and now stands at 1391, with 22 deaths.
The only previously known case of swine infection with the new A(H1N1) occurred at a farm in Alberta, Canada; how the pigs caught the virus is still unclear.
—Martin Enserink
I think the world needs to ask this question to the very expert scientist named Robert G. Webster - WHOs foremost expert about Influenza A - "How did pigs get Human Influenza A?" He didn't think about the future, 40 years ago. I am really sorry, but someone is guilty, in making his famous name... Where is Webster now? In USA?..in Korea, injecting HxNx into more pigs?..I don't know. Just do your research about this "expert scientist"!!!
I think, WHO knows everything, are they trying to protect a scientist that injected in pigs Human virus Flu in the past?
We have covered this extensively. See elsewhere on the blog. And there is a large question mark about where the virus actually first emerged.
This article seems to state that the farm in Argentina and the farm in Canada are the only two pig farms known to be infected with the novel A/H1N1. This implies that the pig farm in Veracruz, Mexico, originally cited as the source of the virus did NOT test positive for any porcine cases of the virus.
If this is correct, there is a major misconception in the media on the source of this virus and it also leaves a large question mark as to where the virus actually first emerged.