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Avoid the Pigs at the Oregon State Fair

Oregon’s State Fair is August 26-September 5. Read the following excerpt article from McKnight’s Senior Living before you or residents attend the event.

If your activities calendar has a trip to an upcoming county or state fair on it, bypass the pig exhibits.

Four cases of swine flu recently were documented — two in Ohio and two in Michigan — among people who had direct exposure to swine at county fairs in the week preceding their illness, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pigs at the fairs have tested positive for the infection.

Those are the first cases of swine flu in humans reported in the United States this year. The infected fair visitors were not hospitalized and continue to recover, according to the CDC.

View the full article at McKnight’s Senior Living.