Swine influenza A (H1N1), more commonly known as “swine flu,” is a respiratory disease that occurs in pigs. People do not normally contract swine flu, but human infections can and do happen.

Although a patient was diagnosed with swine flu in Georgia, that case has been reclassified by the Centers for Disease Control as a Kentucky case, since the woman is from Kentucky. The virus spreads from person to person, often when an infected person sneezes or coughs, expelling germs, and a non-infected person touches a surface with those germs on it and allows those germs to pass inside their body. Germs usually enter the body through contact with the nose, mouth and eyes.