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Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain, D.V.M., said despite the concern about the swine flu, Louisiana residents cannot contract the flu by eating domestic pork or wild hogs.
“Pork is absolutely safe to eat,” Strain said. “Just make sure you continue to practice good food handling procedures and cook the pork meat to 160 degrees.”
Strain said that the current influenza, A(H1N1), that has infected people 331 people worldwide has been called the swine flu in the media but it is a misnomer.
“In the past, health officials noticed that outbreaks of the flu in a family was often followed immediately by illness in their swine herds, thus it was called the swine flu,” Strain said. “But it doesn’t matter if it’s called swine flu or North American flu, our U.S. pork and pork products are safe to eat.”
Strain said the LDAF is monitoring the situation and has a plan in place to test hogs, if a human/animal disease link is identified.
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