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SWINE FLU PICTURES: Bracing for a Potential Pandemic

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A South Korea National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service officer looks at a sample of imported Mexican pork in the city of Anyang on April 27, 2009.

Swine flu viruses are not spread by eating pork, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Rather, swine flu is transmitted through close contact with pigs, as on farms, and through human-to-human contact, as with a common cold.

—Photograph by Lee Jung-hoon Yonhap/AP