What are the Origins of Swine Flu? Is the H1N1 Virus Endemic in Canada's Hog Farms?

The Case of British Columbia
By Alex Roslin    Global Research, July 22, 2009

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Remember when they called it “swine flu”? The first pandemic flu in 41  years was quickly renamed “H1N1” in its early days after the pig
industry, in damage-control mode, proclaimed loudly that people
couldn’t get sick from eating pork. And they said that it looked like
the flu was spreading worldwide from person to person—not from pigs to people.

More than two months after the initial outbreak, it’s still not clear
how the flu started. The most accepted explanation is that a farm
worker at a massive swine operation in Mexico got the virus from a pig and carried it into the wider population, where it spread without any more involvement from pigs.

But a closer look at the data on H1N1 cases in B.C. and the rest of
Canada suggests the pandemic has a much closer relationship with pig farming than suspected. That relationship is especially striking in
the most serious cases of the flu that have caused hospitalization and
death.