Influenza A (H1N1) virus of swine flu hit a pig farm in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the second case known viruses infecting swine pandemic.
The epidemic was announced in a statement by the Food Safety Agency of Argentina SENASA Wednesday; yesterday, Dow Jones Newswires reported that at least five animals tested positive for the virus so far. We do not know where the virus came from, but "we have a very strong hypothesis" that the pigs were infected by a human, Director SENASA Jorge Amaya said in a televised interview since no pigs were introduced to the farm for at least 60 days. the number of human cases reported in Argentina is rapidly increasing and now stands at 1391, with 22 deaths.
the only previously known porcine infection with the new influenza A (H1N1 ) took place on a farm in Alberta, Canada; how the pigs caught the virus is still uncertain
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