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07-07-2009, 06:41 PM
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td>Published: Jul 7, 2009
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- Article Content Begins Here --> <!-- google_ad_section_start --> New Flu Virus: Two Canadian Farmers Contract Virus From Pigs (http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212242558.shtml?ref=rss)
by Jack Ryan
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1070068540274414"; /* 468 */ google_ad_slot = "0592776015"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height</script>A new flu virus has hit two farm workers in Canada. According to reports, the two farmers work on a pig barn in Saskatchewan. The flu is not a strain of the H1N1 and the farmers have reportedly recovered. The owner has not put the farm on quaranteen but has promised not to move the pigs as the flu virus could have been transmitted that way.
According to Reuters (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08342126.htm), "The new virus contains genes from a seasonal human H1N1 flu strain and a flu virus common in the swine population called triple reassortant H3N2, said Dr. Greg Douglas, Saskatchewan's chief veterinary officer. The virus is not connected to the H1N1 strain, sometimes referred to as swine flu, that has killed more than 400 people worldwide. That strain is believed to have begun in Mexico and has been labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization."
</td> </tr> </tbody></table> <!-- Article Content Begins Here --> <!-- google_ad_section_start --> New Flu Virus: Two Canadian Farmers Contract Virus From Pigs (http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212242558.shtml?ref=rss)
by Jack Ryan
<script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-1070068540274414"; /* 468 */ google_ad_slot = "0592776015"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height</script>A new flu virus has hit two farm workers in Canada. According to reports, the two farmers work on a pig barn in Saskatchewan. The flu is not a strain of the H1N1 and the farmers have reportedly recovered. The owner has not put the farm on quaranteen but has promised not to move the pigs as the flu virus could have been transmitted that way.
According to Reuters (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N08342126.htm), "The new virus contains genes from a seasonal human H1N1 flu strain and a flu virus common in the swine population called triple reassortant H3N2, said Dr. Greg Douglas, Saskatchewan's chief veterinary officer. The virus is not connected to the H1N1 strain, sometimes referred to as swine flu, that has killed more than 400 people worldwide. That strain is believed to have begun in Mexico and has been labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization."