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University of Florida infectious disease experts have released a study revealing that several pigs exhibited at U.S. state fair competitions in 2009 were infected with influenza virus, despite their healthy appearance.
Up to 20 percent of pigs at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair youth show were infected, and an infected animal was also found at the 2009 South Dakota State Fair. The study is reported in the September issue of CDC?s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
?The new H3N2 variant viruses that are circulating now in pigs and apparently affecting people at pig shows are offsprings of the 2009 pandemic virus that spread throughout the world,? said lead investigator Gregory Gray, M.D., M.P.H., chairman of the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions department of environmental and global health, and a member of UF?s Emerging Pathogens Institute. ?It mixed with the viruses that were already present in pigs and out has come a new progeny virus.?
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Up to 20 percent of pigs at the 2009 Minnesota State Fair youth show were infected, and an infected animal was also found at the 2009 South Dakota State Fair. The study is reported in the September issue of CDC?s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal.
?The new H3N2 variant viruses that are circulating now in pigs and apparently affecting people at pig shows are offsprings of the 2009 pandemic virus that spread throughout the world,? said lead investigator Gregory Gray, M.D., M.P.H., chairman of the UF College of Public Health and Health Professions department of environmental and global health, and a member of UF?s Emerging Pathogens Institute. ?It mixed with the viruses that were already present in pigs and out has come a new progeny virus.?
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http://www.porknetwork.com/pork-new...2009-H1N1-influenza-infections-166709246.html