Already, pandemic H1N1 viruses are reassorting with H3N2 viruses in swine to create variant H3N2 (H3N2v) viruses that have infected 12 humans in the USA since July 2011, with limited human-to-human transmission and posing a potential pandemic threat.
24 April 2009 - The United States Government has reported seven confirmed human cases of Swine Influenza A/H1N1 in the USA (five in California and two in Texas) and nine suspect cases.
Organization and training of women's groups for accessing productive resources such as seeds and inputs and tools for various crops, technology packages for organic farming, technological exchange units in cattle and swine breeding and beekeeping
The RCGP RSC has operated for over 50 years and has been involved in collecting samples to monitor disease and vaccine effectiveness through the Hong Kong flu pandemic of 1968/69, the Russian flu of 1977/78, and the 2009 Swine flu pandemic.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) acknowledged "We know that [the stated death toll] is an underestimation", a statement corroborated by anecdotal reports of undercounting in the U.S. Such underestimation often occurs in pandemics, such as the 2009 H1N1 swine flu epidemic.The first confirmed death was in Wuhan on 9 January 2020.
Frank J. Snoek wrote that Egyptian medicine used fly specks, lizard blood, swine teeth, and other such remedies which he believes could have been harmful.
These strains, which include genes derived by reassortment from human, swine and avian viruses, have become a major cause of swine influenza in North America.
Swine flu or H1N1 is still making headlines across the Arab world as new cases continue to be discovered by health authorities and announced in the Press on a daily basis.
Despite the overall success of closing schools, a study of school closures in Michigan found that "district level reactive school closures were ineffective."During the swine flu outbreak in 2009 in the UK, in an article titled "Closure of schools during an influenza pandemic" published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases, a group of epidemiologists endorsed the closure of schools in order to interrupt the course of the infection, slow further spread and buy time to research and produce a vaccine.
Lu 15:11-16 —A wayward son squandered his inheritance on a debauched life (“A man had two sons,” “the younger one,” “squandered,” “a debauched life,” “to herd swine,” “carob pods” study notes on Lu 15:11-16, nwtsty)
As of 2004, H3N2 virus isolates in US swine and turkey stocks were triple reassortants, containing genes from human (HA, NA, and PB1), swine (NS, NP, and M), and avian (PB2 and PA) lineages.