With the human swine flu attack happening all over the world, we can’t help but wonder if this virus can somehow end up in our plates and if it is still safe to eat pork since clearly this new strain is a mutated kind. Due to this uncertainty, people stayed away from buying pork hence the big drop in pork market sales by up to 50%. Clearly, this new strain is affecting pig farms all over the world.
Actually, the scary human swine flu affects humans only and the infection is made from one human to another and never by eating infected pork although it is not advisable as well to eat that kind of pork. This human swine flu is a combination of flu strains: human, swine and avian. To avoid further misconception, the CDC changed its name from swine flu to a more technical H1N1.
Again, this human swine flu does not affect the way we eat or put us in any food safety risk by eating pork but proper food handling is highly encouraged to avoid food poisoning. Apparently, there was a reported case wherein a farm worker passed the virus to a herd of pigs but there is no known infection of pig to human, so far.
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