Oklahoma leads region in H1N1 vaccinations

You can’t get swine flu by pigging out on barbecue, even if the boar or sow you used for chow had the disease, the federal government has confirmed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced it now has "additional confirmation” that meat from pigs exposed to H1N1 did not have the virus in it. The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service got samples of the virus from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With those samples from infected people in California and Mexico, they inoculated 30 five-week-old pigs, which were studied for symptoms of the disease and then euthanized in three, five or seven days. The researchers then tested tissue samples to look for the virus. The pigs appeared to have upper respiratory ailments consistent with influenza, but the study found no evidence the virus had spread.

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