Could someone currently contract Swine Influenza, even if they had no contact with infected animals?
Note: the words inside the quotation marks are not my own knowledge, but what I have heard other people saying.
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If Swine Influenza is, “not able to be passed from human to human”, how have people contracted it?
Could someone currently contract Swine Influenza, even if they had no contact with infected animals?
by that they mean that you can’t catch it by just touching someone who is infected, but you can catch it by an infected person coughing/sneezing directly on you (and then it entering your body). I was a bit confused by this at first too, but then I found more about it on the news.
Hope this helps and makes sense!?
Mexicans got it from the swine. Then they spread it by coughing and sneezing and flying to the U.S. I think the U.S. should be quarantined.
It Is passed human to human, but it is just airborne, or lets say, someone with swine flu sneezes on your hand, you later brush your hand against your nose, and bam, you can be affected.
yes its spread from person to person its a flu called h1n1 swine flu is for pigs…… we call this swine flu because its slang!
h1n1 is a bird,pig,human hybrid flu. and it only hurts people…no pig or bird has h1n1 kinda cool eh?
those other people up there —^^^ have it wrong. normal swine flu doesn’t pass from person to person, just directly from a pig to a person. but -this- swine flu *is* able to pass from person to person because it is genetically different than other swine flu- it is a swine-bird-human flu hybrid that is able to spread, which is why there is soooo much concern about it. that’s what i read.
Regular swine flu generally doesn’t pass from human to human.
However, the current type of flu in the news is a mixture of swine, bird, and human flu strains, and because of the human part does pass easily from person to person.
The flu in the news is called swine flu because it contains part of the swine flu virus, but it’s still unknown if it ever infected a pig (although it’s likely).
People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained beyond three people.
Consumption of poorly cooked meats is one way.
Whoever said that was wrong. It can be passed from person to person in any of the ways the regular flu can be passed from person to person.