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Spain has alerted the World Health Organization of what it believes to beryllium a person-to-person transmission of the swine flu virus successful its A(H1N1)v variant, a spokesperson for wellness authorities successful the Catalonia portion confirmed to Reuters connected Friday (February 27, 2026).
In a aboriginal statement, the Catalan wellness section said the hazard appraisal for the colonisation was considered “very low”.
The idiosyncratic infected did not exhibit flu-like respiratory symptoms, it said, and tests on nonstop contacts showed the microorganism had not retransmitted.
An earlier study by paper El Pais citing Catalan health section sources said the patient — who has since recovered — had nary interaction with pigs oregon pig farms, starring experts to reason it was a human-to-human transmission of the pathogen.
This acceptable disconnected alarm bells owed to the pandemic imaginable of the swine flu microorganism if it recombines with a quality flu virus, which could hap if a pig is infected with some astatine the aforesaid time, the El Pais study added.
The WHO did not instantly reply to a Reuters petition for comment.
In 2023, the Netherlands notified the WHO of a confirmed quality corruption with a swine influenza A(H1N1)v microorganism successful an big with no past of occupational vulnerability to animals.
In 2009, the swine flu pandemic successful humans infected millions of people. It was caused by a microorganism that contained familial worldly from viruses that were circulating successful pigs, birds and humans.
