How come the swine flu bacteria attacks human and pigs?
Pigs and us – we don’t have a so similar breathing system. So it doesn’t make sense that the pig’s flu will infect us- so what happened?
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Answers (2) to: "How come the swine flu bacteria attacks human and pigs?"
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First of all, it’s not a bacterium- it’s a virus. The reason I correct is because there’s a very big difference between bacteria and viruses, we can treat bacteria with antibiotics and viruses we have limited treatments. The flu virus attacks cells in our body and apparently we have a similar cell structure…
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Viruses and bacteria need something to hold on to in order to infect. They usually bind to certain proteins in the cell membrane. So I guess we and pigs have a common protein on our lungs cell’s membrane…could be no?
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