There is a\u00a0tremendous\u00a0amount of information in the media circulating about the H1N1 flu virus (a.k.a. swine flu).\u00a0 I would like to offer a few research based articles to ease your concern.\u00a0 The best advice currently is to wash your hands and stay home if you are sick.\u00a0 If you are sick with H1N1 flu-like symptoms, you should seek medical help.\u00a0 This is the same information that\u00a0health professionals\u00a0offer all year long in regards to keeping you and your family healthy and safe.\u00a0 In addition, handling or eating pork will not give you\u00a0the H1N1\u00a0(swine) flu.\u00a0 Pork is perfectly safe to eat.\u00a0 I hope these articles will let you sleep better at night, and have a pork sandwich for lunch!<\/p>\n
Click on the below links to read science-based\u00a0articles that are credible and up to date regarding the\u00a0H1N1 virus.<\/p>\n
USDA’s Frequently Asked Questions on iInfluenza A (H1N1)<\/a><\/p>\n Information in Spanish from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There is a\u00a0tremendous\u00a0amount of information in the media circulating about the H1N1 flu virus (a.k.a. swine flu).\u00a0 I would like to offer a few research based articles to ease your concern.\u00a0 The best advice currently is to wash your hands and stay home if you are sick.\u00a0 If you are sick with H1N1 flu-like symptoms, you should seek medical help.\u00a0 Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[180,181,1085,182,183,184,185,186,187,188,189],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b","tag-cdc-h1ni","tag-flu","tag-b","tag-h1n1","tag-h1n1-spanish","tag-pork-board","tag-pork-safety","tag-pork-safety-illness","tag-swine-flu","tag-unl-extension-h1n1","tag-usda-h1n1","cat-44-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/H1N1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}