Society for General Microbiology
Humans may give swine flu to pigs in new twist to pandemic
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, July 28th, 2009
In research published in Journal of General Virology, Dr Thomas Vahlenkamp and a team of virologists from the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Greifswald-Insel Riems, Germany, experimentally infected five pigs with the strain of swine flu that is causing the current human pandemic. Within four days the virus had spread to three un-infected pigs housed with the infected ones and all pigs were showing clinical signs of swine flu.
"Although in the early stages of the swine flu pandemic there were...
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