company’s own website<\/a> for the number]. Locals say the water run-off reeked of feces. Flies multiplied into the millions, forming black clouds that overflew fields and intruded into homes. <\/p>\nIf these flies were ‘biting flies’, then it’s possible they served as vectors for disease. Some of the farmers claim the flies made them sick. Others say it was the water. Perhaps, it was both.<\/p>\n
Could it be that swine influenza virons infected individuals at the same time that biting flies introduced a secondary infection into the same bloodstream? Or could it be that the flies mediated something new between the pigs and humans? <\/p>\n
Facts, at this point, are few, but the United Nations is sending a team of specialists to investigate the farm and the locals who live nearby. More on this, as details emerge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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