CDC issues fair warning about pig flu

Published August 3, 2012 7:04pm ET



ATLANTA (AP) — It’s the season for state and county fairs, and health officials are reminding fairgoers to be careful around pigs because of a new flu spreading from the animals to people.

Officials say 29 human cases of the new strain of swine flu have been confirmed in the U.S. in the last year, most of them children.

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