Pigs have their own versions of influenza, and studies of farmers and meatpackers suggest that the animals fairly regularly infect people.
Pigs play an important role in the origin of pandemics because they can be infected by both bird and human strains of flu virus. Consequently, they can serve as “mixing vessels” in which different viruses can combine to form new and potentially dangerous strains.
In most cases, the transmission involves common pig flu that does not go beyond the person who had contact with the animal. But in a few, there is evidence of secondary human-to-human transmission — which appears to be happening in California and Mexico.
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