Two people have caught flu strains that normally circulate in pigs, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, and pig exhibits at state fairs appear to be to blame
Two people have caught flu strains that normally circulate in pigs, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, and pig exhibits at agricultural fairs appear to be to blame. Each patient became ill with flu-like symptoms about 10 days after visiting pig exhibits at two different agricultural fairs in early and late July. Neither was hospitalized, and their infections do not appear to have spread to other people, the CDC said.
Still, the illnesses highlight the possibility that flu viruses have the ability jump from animals such as birds and pigs to humans. Usually, cases like these don’t cause further problems because the viruses are adapted to infecting other species, but because there’s always the possibility that such a spillover could cause widespread disease, the CDC says it always fully traces and investigates these cases.
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