Hong Kong (HKSAR) - The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) of the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department (FEHD) today (August 26) announced results of the regular influenza virus surveillance programme on pigs conducted by the University of Hong Kong (HKU) for May to July at the Sheung Shui Slaughterhouse. Among some 1,300 samples tested, no human swine influenza virus (pandemic H1N1) was detected. However, 16 samples taken in June and July were found to contain a virus that was essentially a swine influenza H3N2 virus but had picked up some genes of human swine influenza virus.Here are 3 more articles on a H3N2 & H1N1 combo:
Novel H3N2 swine flu viruses infected 2 children, CDC says
Robert Roos 
News Editor
Sep 2, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – In separate instances, influenza A/H3N2 viruses circulating in swine picked up a gene from the pandemic 2009 H1N1 virus and recently infected two young children, one in Indiana and one in Pennsylvania, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported today.
Both of the children recovered, though one was briefly hospitalized, and there is no sign that the viruses spread from the children to others, but any evidence of ongoing transmission would require a rapid response, the CDC said.
The agency also said one of the children had no direct contact with pigs, which suggests he caught it from another person. Both children are under age 5.
Continued: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/influenza/swineflu/news/sep0211swine.htmltrH3N2 Cases In Indiana and Pennsylvania Match
Recombinomics Commentary 18:50
September 2, 2011
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/09021103/trH3N2_IN_PA_Match.html
Match of trH3N2 Cases In PA and IN Raises Pandemic Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 20:15
September 2, 2011
http://www.recombinomics.com/News/09021104/trH3N2_Match_Pandemic.html
Two More trH3N2 Cases (PA & IN) Raise Pandemic Concerns
Recombinomics Commentary 01:15
September 2, 2011
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