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A lot of the time, I'll come across articles where I think, "People at gotwoot might find this interesting" but I don't feel like creating a thread just for that one little article.

So, here we shall have a thread for all those news articles that are [b]not quite thread-worthy, but still fun to post and share with each other. This isn't meant to encompass all news topics, since many do have enough discussion around them to merit dedicated threads. For everything else though, the random, silly, and interesting, let's keep each other informed about what's going on in the world!
Regarding the swine flu, from what I heard from CBC and one of the experts working on this, the swine [pig] flu came from the pigs [suggestively in Mexico]. The pig acts like a "gateway vessel" for virus strains from other animals to humans.

Birds may have flown around and secrete their "essences" [bodily fluids] in the environment, some coincidentally transferring to the pigs. A pig farmer may be exposed to the secretions of the pig, exposing the avian-swine virus to the humans. Then, the pig farmer may have spread it to other people through human secretions (sneezing, coughing, etc.).

That's just an example of an origin, but that is how this virus is making the headlines. A possible outbreak pandemic caused by a strain that we have never seen before is a juicy media headline that has exponentially increased the public fear in the US and Canada.

As Ryllharu said, these people are recovering their mild symptoms from antibiotics and there is nothing much to worry about if you're living in those two countries.

Just wash your hands regularly with soap and cough or sneeze into your elbows. An advisory warning has gone out to inform people not to travel to Mexico unless it is absolutely essential.

A tunny tidbit spawning from all of this is that any food-farming stocks has fallen due to public fear of this swine flu when it is clearly the case that you do not contract swine flu from eating pigs.