Swine flu Symptoms - Pig Flu Symptoms - Swine Flu Detected in India - Swine flu

Main symptoms of the Swine Flu in Swine:

The main symptoms of the pig influenza in pigs are fever, lethargy, sneezing, coughing, difficulty breathing and decreased appetite. It can also lead to weight loss as well economic losses to the farmers, those pigs(swine) infected with the influenza tends to loose nearly 6kg of weight over a period of 3 weeks. It may also lead to abortion whereas the mortality rate in this influenza is low.

Main symptoms of Swine flu in Humans:

Direct transmission of the swine flu from the pigs to the Humans is occasionally possible and when it happens it leads to Zoonotic Swine flu. The Zoonotic swine flu is not much lethal because the number of the deaths reported over the period of years it has been quite low but the infection rate of the influenza is higher because it is mild and does not get easily detected. It requires the laboratory tests to detect the swine influenza.

The outbreak of the swine influenza is not the caused by the direct transmission from pig to humans but the outbreak is due to the transmission from human to human. The symptoms this influenza in humans is as like as the general influenza such as fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. The 2009 outbreak has shown an increased percentage in the number of patients reporting diarrhea and vomiting..