Oh my goodness - Swine Flu!

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Human infection with swine flu viruses are most likely to occur when people are in close proximity to infected pigs, such as in pig barns and livestock exhibits at fairs.
A flu outbreak affecting more than 900 people in Mexico, including at least 16 who died, was caused by a new strain of swine influenza "that can attack anyone," Mexico's health minister said Friday.

"It is a virus that mutated from pigs and then at some point was transmitted to humans," Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos said.

The outbreak, which Mexican authorities began reporting April 18, is being investigated by public health officials throughout North America. In the United States, officials say they're studying eight cases, including the initial two children in California and Texas who had no contact with pigs or each other, suggesting that human-to-human transmission of this new swine flu virus occurred. All have since recovered.