Can people get Swine Flu from others?

Answer 1

Yes, but this can be a little confusing. The Swine Flu was originally called that because it is a disease that pigs get from each other and causes the same kind of virus symptoms that flu viruses in other animals, including people, get. It is just a strain of that virus that pigs get and give each other, but other animals and people don't get.

The 2009 Swine Flu that is going around in people right now, is really named:

Influenza A, Novel H1N1, but is nicknamed "The Swine Flu" because it is a strain of the same virus that causes the flu in pigs. The difference is this one has mutated into a new strain that is able to go from pigs to people and people to people and even from people back to pigs.

To confuse just a little further, part of the reason this strain, Novel H1N1, is different and why we don't have vaccines for it yet, is that it is a brand new kind that just "morphed" into being. It came from a combination of the two of the original flus that pigs can get (Asian and European) with a kind that birds get called "Bird flu" or Avian Flu (H5N1) and then morphed again with some human virus genomes to become the Novel H1N1 2009 Swine Flu. The process of combining the four types of flu into one new one is called a quadruple reassortant.

So the answer is yes, people can give the one that is the new one, the "2009 Swine Flu" (Novel H1N1, aka A-H1N1/09) to each other.

Answer 2

To get the swine flu, from someone, he/she has to expell viruses from his/her body by talking, caughting etc... Thus he/she has to be infected by the virus.

Someone efficiently vaccinated (who've been vaccinated before contratcing the virus) will have his natural defenses detroying the virus before it can develop. This person will be immune. It mean the virus can't live in his/her organism. If there is no living virus there, you can't get it!

Answer 3

mga after 2 weeks na mo na makikta yun... basta hanggat may lagnat pa yung Tao medyo iwasan niyo munang dumikit ng dumikit

Answer 4

if you were in contact with this person when they had it then yes you can get it. but if you were in contact with them while they were on the antibiotics no.