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It was originally thought to have been a strain of flu specific to pigs, when a boy in Mexico caught it (he visited a farm), but then research found that it couldn’t have come from pigs – which is why butchers want the name changed (people have stopped buying because they think eating it will make you ill – it won’t). To be honest no-one is sure of how it originated.
