Minnesota State Fair: Pigs might've given people flu
Source: CNN
Three people appear to have become infected with a strain of influenza after exhibiting pigs or visiting the swine barn at the Minnesota State Fair, health officials said Friday.
Only one of the three cases has been confirmed to be an infection of the influenza variant H1N2, and test results are pending for the other two people, Minnesota health officials said.
"The H1N2v strain is different from the H3N2v strain that has prompted stepped up surveillance and prevention efforts nationwide, after causing 289 reported cases of illness and one death since the beginning of the year," state health officials said in a statement.
A teenage girl was confirmed to have the virus after she saw the pigs at the fair and became ill on August 26, officials said.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/31/health/minnesota-state-fair-influenza/index.html
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Osterholm is just getting his face time again. He switched from Public Health to Bio-terrorism years ago and like the person who only has a hammer so everything looks to him like an emergency (nail).
