The swine flu virus is an influenza virus.
The name of the swine flu virus is H1N1.
For the first time is the swine flu virus in Mexico in mid-April when a person has been found.
Meanwhile it is certain that the swine flu virus from human to human is.
Also in Germany there were two reported cases in which the swine flu virus from person to person has been transferred.

A vaccine against the swine flu virus is not yet on the market. The production is still up around the end of the year.

Whether it's through the swine flu virus into a pandemic will come is not yet clear. In any case, the WHO has the second highest level pandemic was declared.
A further increase of the pandemic stage means that the swine flu virus, according to the WHO led a pandemic.

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