Swine Flu
What exactly is Swine Flu and what are the symptoms of Swine Flu?
Swine flu is just like the regular flu but a little bit different as it is just not like the normal bird flu. Swine flu has some bird, pig and human aspects to it thus making it harder to develop a vaccine against it. It is not a common flu but with a outbreak of it it can cause a lot of problems. Everyone who got the flu vaccine is not immune to this strain at all. No one is. That is what makes it so dangerous.
Spread of swine flu feared
Fears of a swine flu epidemic grew yesterday as public health officials struggled to understand a novel viral strain that has killed as many as 70 people in Mexico and infected a fourth person in San Diego County. Ref. Source 9
World on alert as flu epidemic fear grows
Governments around the world have rushed to check the spread of a new type of flu that has killed up to 81 people. Ref. Source 7
UK Cases
Twenty-five possible swine flu cases have been reported in the UK, of which 17 are still being investigated, the health secretary says.