No. It can be confusing because the Spanish Flu in 1918 was also an H1N1 flu virus, and so is the swine flu that pigs pass to each other. But the strain that caused the 2009 pandemic of H1N1/09 novel...
Yes. It has spread quickly and widely to become the first pandemic covering the entire globe since the Spanish Flu in 1918. It is a milder disease in people so far, but it is very easily spread from...
It steals it from its host. A virus enters the cells of the host animal and changes the cell's DNA/RNA to make it stop doing what it usually does for the host and start working on making copies of...
Like other influenza viruses, it attacks the respiratory system. It causes the tissues to become inflamed and actually enters some of the cells of the host animal to cause them to reproduce the virus...