OTTAWA — Pigs at an Alberta farm caught the same swine flu strain that has sickened hundreds of humans around the world, federal officials said Saturday.
A farmhand who travelled to Mexico and fell ill upon his return apparently infected the pigs with the H1N1 influenza virus, said Dr. David Butler-Jones, Canada’s chief public health officer.
“So far, basically what we’re seeing in the pig is the same strain as we see in the humans,” Butler-Jones said.
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