First case of swine-fever confirmed in Spain

I break my quite lengthy period of blog-silence here to record that the first confirmed case of swine-fever ('swine-flu') has been reported in Almansa (Albacete); it is the first confirmed case in the European Union.Nineteen other possible cases of infection by the A/H1N1 virus are under investigation in Spain as follows: Catalonia (10), Andalucia (3), Castilla-La Mancha (2) and one each in