true...it actually called influenza A. With the economy hurting already, I don't blame the pork industry from worrying.A couple of countries already have banned pork products from US and Mexico. Now back to cooking the bacon.
As of today there are 12 suspected cases in the region of NY that I live in.
This all originated with the Spanish Flu in 1918-1919. When one looks at the stats from that pandemic, one needs to worry. 500,000 dead in US, 20-50 million worldwide. Sufferers often succumbed to total respiration failure within hours.
The Asian flu in the 1950's killed 2-4 million people. Then 1968 Hong Kong flu killed 1 million. The 1976 Swine Flu killed 1 and the vaccine created for it killed 30. All of these were influenza A mutations.
TPBMworries on how fast influenza A mutates and how deadly it can be at times.