There's a new star in town but its not in the entertainment business, its not even actor. Its a flu, a swine flu. But this is not the 1st time that swine flu effect human being. On March 24, 1976, President Gerald Ford pressed the panic button.

A swine flu virus that scientists believed was descended from the devastating strain of 1918 had infected hundreds of recruits at Fort Dix in New Jersey. One had died. At the urgings of the Center for Disease Control, Ford mobilized a national effort to beat back a resurgence of the 1918 flu, which had killed an estimated 50 million worldwide. Television and radio outlets swamped the airwaves with reports of imminent danger. About 40 million Americans got swine flu shots.
The immunization program ground to a halt in 10 weeks after 525 people who were vaccinated then reported Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare condition typified by inflamed nerves and general weakness. About 25 people died.

Swine influenza (also called swine flu, pig influenza, hog flu, and pig flu) refers to influenza virus that usually infect pigs and are called swine influenza virus. Swine influenza is common in pigs in the Midwestern United States (and occasionally in other states), Mexico, Canada, South America, Europe (including the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Italy), Kenya, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and other parts of eastern Asia.

Transmission of swine influenza virus from pigs to humans is not common. When transmitted, it does not always cause human influenza and often, the only sign of infection is the presence of antibodies which are only detectable by laboratory tests. When transmission results in influenza in a human, it is called zoophytic swine flu.

Rarely, these strains of swine flu can pass from human to human. In humans, the symptoms of swine flu are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general, namely chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort. We need to be very careful nowadays, we don't know when or how we be effected. Hope It wont get to our love one's.