(2) Swine Flu H1N1 – How to Protect Your Most Valuable Assets - Yourself and Your Family

Pigs can play a unique role as an intermediary host to new flu types because pig respiratory cells can be infected directly with bird, human, and other mammalian flu viruses. Consequently, pig respiratory cells are able to be infected with many types of flu and can function as a "mixing pot" for flu RNA segments.

Bird flu viruses, which usually infect birds species are shed in bird feces. Pigs can get this virus from the environment thus, bird flu virus RNA segments enter the mammalian flu virus population. So, if a bird poops on your head or vehicle etc, wash it off right away.

To put it simply, a human or bird influenza virus can infect a pig respiratory cell at the same time as a swine influenza virus; some of the replicating RNA strands from the human virus can get mistakenly enclosed inside the enveloped swine influenza virus.

Now that the pig respiratory cell is infected with the human, avian or bird flu, it can in turn infect humans. However, from what we can tell from our research, it is decided that neither pigs nor birds infected a human with its own strain of influenza and a person got swine flu then passed it from person to person causing a pandemic.

Please keep in mind that every individual has their own RNA. Any strain of influenza may affect one person differently than another. Therefore, it is common sense that the immune system is what checks and wards off disease.

This virus was originally referred to as “swine flu” because laboratory testing showed that many of the genes in this new virus were very similar to influenza viruses that normally occur in pigs (swine) in North America. But further study has shown that this new virus is very different from what normally circulates in North American pigs. It has two genes from flu viruses that normally circulate in pigs in Europe and Asia and bird (avian) genes and human genes. Scientists call this a "quadruple reassortant" virus. Invariably named Swine Flu or H1N1 which is the scientific terminology.   NEXT

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