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IPIC Head On KCII Special Edition News Magazine Today

Posted: October 22, 2009 @ 6:47 am In Today's Local News

IPIC Associate Director Dr. Jim McKean [1]IPIC Associate Director Dr. Jim McKean

The head of Iowa’s Pork Industry Center says a person looking for the source of this year’s H1N1 influenza outbreak wouldn’t want to look in Mexico. Dr. Jim McKean says the genetic makeup of the virus indicates it may have originated in China. McKean says the virus was initially mislabeled “swine flu” because it displays characteristics of strains that effect both hogs and humans. To hear more from McKean listen to KCII’s Special Edition News Magazine today (10/22) at 1:00


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