A:Hehehe, mate, The swine flu was infact a real strain of virus that killed a few hundred people. It was just a form of a common flu that originated in Pigs but mutated to also affect humans. These sort of pandemics are serious and very deadly. The swine flu, like the avian flu, equine flu and sars were serious epidemics that would never be used as a hoax. Lucky we're through the most of it.