Health experts at the UW School of Veterinary Medicine say the current strain of pig swine virus is something the world’s never seen before.
“It primarily causes pneumonia — people with the flu will have a fever, muscle aches, body aches, sore throat, runny eyes, runny nose,” said Dr. Christopher Olsen.
Olsen oversees a laboratory at the UW devoted to studying why swine influenza spreads to humans. He says while the illness originated with pigs, it’s now spreading from human to human.