- Several news reports about the outbreak of swine flu have pointed a finger in a massive pig farm in Veracruz, Mexico, as a potential source of the first transmission to humans. Fat chance, says the company.
A local newspaper even argued in a title 15-April before the outbreak was officially recognized-that the company, Granjas Carroll, caused an epidemic of respiratory infections in the city of Veracruz La Gloria. The story gained further impetus yesterday when the Mexican government said the first confirmed case was a boy from a town near La Gloria. But the Mexican Secretary of Health José Ángel Córdova said that 29 other suspected cases in the city are not new virus plague.
Smithfield Foods, the largest pork producer in the US and a 50% owner of Granjas Carroll, strongly refuted these stories. "Smithfield has no reason to believe that the virus is in any way connected to its operations in Mexico," the company said in a statement on April 26. Granjas Carroll testing its swine flu for each month, according to the statement, and "found no clinical signs or symptoms of the presence of swine flu in pigs in the herd of the company or its employees." swine flu is not transmitted by pork products.
the company refused Science the application of the initiate for an interview, but in a second statement issued today, he again stressed that he was "fully cooperate with the Mexican authorities" and was " voluntarily submitting new samples from their swine herds for the analysis of genetic sequence and the first results are expected by the end of the week. "
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