Swine flu, also known as 2009 H1N1 type A influenza, is a human disease. People get the disease from other people, not from pigs. The disease originally was nicknamed swine flu because the virus that causes the d isease originally jumped to humans from the live pigs in which it evolved.
Earlier this week the New Yorkerâs John Cassidy asked, âWhere are the real conservative intellectuals?â The short answer is that âconservativeâ once signified an intellectual tendency with partisan overtones, now it signifies a partisan tendency that would prefer not to have intellectual overtones â there are no votes in that.
Intellectual disability (ID), also called intellectual development disorder (IDD) or general learning disability, and formerly known as mental retardation (MR), is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by significantly impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning.ntellectual disability affects about 2â3% of the general population. 75â90% of the affected people have mild intellectual disability. Non-syndromic or idiopathic cases accounts for 30â50% of cases. About a quarter of cases are caused by a genetic disorder.