Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question, with a little bit of notice, is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health and Ageing. Following reports of pigs in Canada catching the Mexican flu—H1N1, otherwise known as swine flu—from humans, what is to prevent pigs in South-East Asia that are already carrying the bird flu virus, H5N1, from catching the Mexican flu as it spreads there and being the incubator for a more deadly strain of avian and swine influenza with human-to-human transmissibility? In what other ways might the Mexican H1N1 flu become more life threatening?