WHO Says Cooked Pork Is Safe to Eat

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Published May 7, 2009 at 3:39 p.m.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting there is no reason to avoid eating pork or pork products that have been properly handled and cooked. They say the H1N1 or swine flu is killed when the meat is cooked at 160°F/70°C, the general recommendations for cooking meats ... read more ...

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Top Ten Fascinating Facts About Pigs

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Published May 7, 2009 at 5:07 p.m.

wannaveg / CC With swine flu now in at least 22 countries and the World Health Organization announcing that you may be able to get sick from eating pork from infected animals, pigs appear to be on people's minds 24/7 ...

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Lauren Collins: What is it about the word "swine"?

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Published May 3, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.

Last week, there were a lot of questions about swine flu, not the least of which was what to call it. An Israeli health minister, loath to utter the words, attempted to rename the virus the “Mexican flu.” The hog farmers and the pork processors proposed the “North American influenza . .  ...

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Pork Lobbyists Rush To Put Lipstick On Pig Amid Swine Flu Fears

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Published May 3, 2009 at 11:15 p.m.
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It was Day 7 of the great swine flu outbreak, and inside the eighth-floor conference room in a concrete hulk of an office building on Capitol Hill, the pork lobbyists were in crisis mode. The National Pork Producers Council, whose members were watching with dismay as prices fell, labored to reverse the public dialogue about the fast-spreading virus and to convince consumers that the "other white meat" was still safe to eat ... More on Swine Flu ...

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Pork industry says flu misnomer is a headache

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Published April 30, 2009 at 7:40 p.m.
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The disease most people in the United States and worldwide know as "swine flu" is actually a combination of human and animal strains and has not been shown to be transmissible through eating pork. The nation's hog farmers and producers say the misnomer is hurting them. And in an already suffering market, the negative news is something the industry says could have been prevented ...

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Mexican Flu Farms Mean Mucho Dinero for Some

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Published April 30, 2009 at 3:31 p.m.

edf / CC What do Smithfield Foods and Donald Rumsfeld have to do with the global swine flu scare? Author F. William Engdahl's informative article, which details the links between factory farms, spin doctors, the pork industry, and drug ...

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Farmers Worry About "Swine Flu" Nickname

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Published April 28, 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
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Like the virus itself, the name "swine flu" is spreading quickly. For the pork purveyors and hog farmers who make up the nation's $15 billion pork industry, that's a disaster ...

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H1N1 Swine Flu Information

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Published May 1, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.

Information on the H1N1 swine flu virus, including prevention and treatment.

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   This site was created to help deal with the H1N1 influenza flu pandemic. Flu preparation is important! You can have an immunization with the flu vaccine, you can have the flu shot; flu shots are good before you are showing flu symptoms, although the current trivalent influenza vaccine is unlikely to provide protection against the new 2009 H1N1 strain, vaccines against the new strain are being developed and could be ready as early as June 2009.

   According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in humans the symptoms of H1N1 swine flu are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general. Symptoms include fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. The 2009 outbreak has shown an increased percentage of patients reporting diarrhea and vomiting.

   Recommendations to prevent the spread of the virus among humans include using standard infection control against influenza. This includes frequent washing of hands with soap and water or with alcohol-based hand sanitizers, especially after being out in public.