BREAKING NEWS Michigan resident infected with mutant virus that triggered global panic READ MORE: American hospitalized with SWINE FLU after touching infected pigs By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:00, 9 August 2024 | Updated: 21:04, 9 August 2024 e-mail View comments A Michigan resident has tested positive for the swine flu in what officials believe is an 'isolated' case. State health officials confirmed Friday that an unnamed individual tested positive for swine flu, also called influenza A H3N2v, in late July.
The infection typically spreads through contact with pigs, though it's unclear how the individual was exposed. The news comes after a Pennsylvania resident was diagnosed with influenza A in March after direct contact with farm animals. People can catch swine flu from contact with infected pigs directly and the strains that infect humans are often blends of avian, swine and human flu viruses Influenza A is endemic among pigs but rarely infects humans.
However, in 2009, a strain of influenza A caused a swine flu epidemic, infecting more than 59million Americans and killing thousands. However, the disease is extremely rare in the US, infecting just three people last year. Two of those patients had attended different agricultural fairs in Michigan and had direct exposure to pigs.
Both of them experienced mild illness and fully recovered with no evidence they transmitted the infections to others. A third was a child from Montana who had also v.