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Article: Farm boy got flu from pig in '05 Sheboygan-area case unrelated to current international outbreak
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 5, 2009
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As the number of probable swine flu cases in Wisconsin rose
Monday to 102 in addition to the three confirmed cases, officials
said the state had an intriguing brush with the illness more than
three years ago.
In December 2005, a 17-year-old boy from the Sheboygan area came
down with flu symptoms three days after helping to butcher pigs.
The case, described in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases
in 2008 and recounted in the current issue of Newsweek, did not
result in transmission of swine flu to other patients and is
therefore not linked to the current disease.
"The individual acquired his infection directly from exposure to
freshly killed pigs at a slaughterhouse," Jeffrey Davis, chief ...