Mexican Swine Flu May Have Originated in Ohio

Tara Smith, over at the always excellent Aetiology has some very preliminary data that points toward this flue being the progeny of a small outbreak outbreak at the Ohio state fair a few years back.

It is by no means definitive, but it is interesting.

If true, it pokes big holes in the denials by the Mexican government, and Smithfield, that this has nothing to do with their hogs.