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How are swine flu or influenza and normal flu or influenza distinguished from each other?
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They are all type A: Flu viruses, whether designated as swine or avian depends on where the virus primarily originated. All type a influenza viruses can interchange parts of their RNA with other type a flus.
Answered 6/10/2014
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