Swine flu can jump from us to them

PARIS: Pigs, fingered as the source of so-called swine flu, can also be infected by humans, German scientists said yesterday.

The findings add a new risk factor to the global pandemic sparked by the A (H1N1) virus, they said.

Virologists from the Friedrich Loeffler Institute infected five 10-week-old pigs with the human strain of virus and housed them with three uninfected pigs.