Officials prepare for possible outbreak

H1N1 influenza is also referred to as swine flu. “Swine flu is a misnomer; it was called swine flu early on because in laboratory testing some of the genes were similar to the influenza virus that normally spread in pigs in North America, but further studies have shown it to be different than the pig virus,” said Dr. Khwaja Atiq Rahman, president and medical director of Express Care of Tampa Bay.

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