Technically, it's not human-swine contact that does it, but airborne liquids, like bodily fluids, fog, sneezes, air, etc. It's more like influenza than bird flus in that way. Here's a rather telling and disturbing set of photos about the epicenter of this epidemic. Yes, that place is owned by an American company.
Damn! It's a shame I didn't have that picture handy to illustrate my rebuttal when some clean-freak was ripping me a new one for preaching against excessive hand-washing. 8-D
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Date: 2009-04-29 12:36 am (UTC)why don't ya go kiss a pig, don't ya know?
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