swine flu

     

Swine Flu (or Swine influenzavirus (SIV) flu) refers to a subset of Orthomyxoviriae that creates influenza in pigs and are endemic in pigs. This is not a phylogenetics based taxonomic category.

Trivia about swine flu

  • On April 21, 1976 FDA administrator Harry Meyer got the first vaccination in the campaign against this piggish strain
  • A national inoculation campaign was held in 1976 to prevent an epidemic of this that never materialized

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