Recently over the world is alerting about Swine flu epidemic. Not long after 81 victims people in Mexico, the governments around the world keen to check whether a new type of Swine flu have been spreaded. In March 2005, an article said that a series of strange influenza sequences has been sitting in GenBank, the U.S. National Institutes of Health’sDNA database, that seems to suggest that pigs in South Korea have become infected with a flu strain, but WHO was dismissed that news.

It is Henry Niman, the president of a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania–based company called Recombinomics and the operator of a mailing list about flu, believes that the virus, called WSN/33, poses a grave danger to human health, according to the article at that time. Now, The WHO declared the flu a “public health event of international concern.” WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan urged greater worldwide surveillance for any unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness according to many articles in internet.

Below we provide you with an article about Swine Influenza as this is a warm issues nowdays. In this article (download provided), you can find sections such What is Swine Influenza, How common is swine flu among pigs, Can humans catch swine flu, How does swine flu spread, Is there a vaccine for swine flu, and any other question concerned in Swine Influenza.

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