On August 20, 2007 investigated the occurrence of swine flu in the region of Nueva Ecija and Central Luzon in the Philippines. Is a mortality rate below 10 percent for the flu, but had complications such as swine. On July 27, 2007, the National Meat Inspection (National Meat Inspection Service or NMIS) from Philippines, launched a red alert for swine in Metro Manila and five other regions of Luzon after the disease was spreading to farms pigs in Bulacan and Pampanga, even though it was reported that samples of the animals were negative for the virus A/H1N1.

Plagues and Poxes: The Impact of Human History on Epidemic Disease by M.D. Alfred Jay Bollet (Paperback – Jun 30, 2004)