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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Swine Flu - Causes, Symptoms and Treatments

What do you mean by Swine Flu? 

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Swine Flu

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Swine Flu Virus Structure

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Swine Flu Bacteria


 Swine Flu (swine influenza) is not an ordinary disease instead it is a respiratory disease caused by viruses commonly called influenza viruses that infect the respiratory tract of pigs, resulting in nasal secretion, a barking cough, reduced appetite, and lacking energy. Swine flu generates most of the similar symptoms in pigs as human flu generates in people. Swine Flu can last about one to two weeks in pigs that survive. Swine influenza virus was isolated from pigs in 1930 in the United States and has been known by pork producers and veterinarians to origin infections in pigs universally. Largely, people with the Swine Flu infection enlarged when they were directly related with pigs (for example, farmers, pork processors), and similarly, pig populations have infrequently been infected with the human flu infection. H1N1 flu was mostly found infecting human and exhibits two major surface antigens, H1 (hemagglutinin type 1) and N1 (neuraminidase type1). The eight RNA strands from H1N1 flu contain one strand resultant from human flu strains, two from avian (bird) strains, and finally five from swine strains.

Swine Flu
Swine Flu