Misconception about Swine Flu

There is a misconception about swine flu so thousands of pig was killed. World Health Organization (WHO) takes steps to fix this error because the correct information is H1N1 virus, which spreads from human to human rather than from pigs to human. World Health Organization (WHO) announced the termination of the term 'swine flu'. This was done because the term 'swine flu' has caused misunderstanding to cause pig slaughter ordered. Change of WHO's policy was happening a day after Egypt started to slaughter thousands of pig as a mistaken effort to prevented swine flu.

"Rather than call this swine flu ... we will hold the name of scientific technical influenza H1N1," said Dick Thompson WHO spokesman as statement of AFP news agency, Friday (1/5/2009). Swine flu virus was from the pig, but flu virus infecting in this time is a new virus strain that has genes from the human virus, birds and pigs. Scientist do not know how this virus move to humans. Virus spread from human to human, not from contact with pigs. Egypt has about 300 thousands slaughter of pigs in that country even though experts say that the flu is not related with pigs and do not spread with eating pork. In Paris, the World Animal Health Organization state, so far "there is no evidence of flu infection in pig and human direct from infected pigs."

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