Pune Fifty pigs have died in a fortnight in Jalgaon but humans need not worry about swine flu, the animal husbandry department says. The disease that killed the pigs was not swine flu but swine fever, which does not pass on to humans, DS Zagade, commissioner of animal husbandry, said on Sunday.
PREVENTIVE measures to tackle the possible threat of swine flu continued on Friday as the Chennai Corporation captured 25 more pigs, taking the total number culled to around 150 in the last three days.
Dead pigs in China, evil factory farms in Mexico and an Al Qaeda plot involving Mexican drug cartels are a few wild theories seeking to explain a deadly swine flu outbreak that has killed up to 176 people.
AGARTALA/IMPHAL April 30: Tripura Government has sounded an alert in the state to check an outbreak of the deadly swine flu, official sources said today. The decision to issue the alert was taken last night at a meeting chaired by principal secretary of the Health department Yash Pal Singh.Two health directors S R Debbarma and R K Dhar were also present at the meeting.
April 30: As swine flu panic gripped the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has served notice to pig breeders to take their animals away from human habitations.
The city has over three dozen pig breeding centres and a swine population of 20,000. Pigs are reared mainly by the Erukala community as a livelihood.
Underscoring the significance of individual measures that served as the first line of defence against any influenza virus, speakers at a discussion on swine flu said that though the virus seemed to be getting less virulent with time, there was a dire need to create awareness about it and take preventive measures since the disease had now become a global threat.
