Currently, are Guinea Pigs safe from the pig flu thing?

aww hes sweeter than you...Im sure hes safe...

OMG Flor i could never eat anything like that...never heard of such thing LOL ..

Shamboo...why are you being a azz...

Not really! For one thing, hamsters can easily escape out of their cages while guinea pigs can't escape. Also, whoever said guinea pigs bite more than hamsters are totally wrong. For the whole two years I've had my guinea pigs, I've never ever gotten bitten.

yes they are. They arent even pigs. They are more of the mouse species. Anywasys the pig/swine flue isnt a flue froma a pic. It may have started off from a pig getting sick with the bird flu and a human touched its snot, so someone got sick.. The H1N1 Flu is mostly human flu with a mutated virus. I dont think its dangerous.

If your guinie pig has the bird flu, then he has the swine flu, but not the H1N1 flu

It is behind time as the Pig (Swine) Flu is renamed as AH1N1Flu....no connection to Pig or Pork or guinea pigs.

biologically, guinea pigs are closer to the rodent family, they are not part of the pig family that livestock makes into bacon and ham. :) so, although they are mammals, they do not carry big/bird flu viri.

All I know is that Guinea Pigs are not safe in Mexico as they are eaten over there.

Not only dose swine flue not effect pigs --It's now called H1N1 (Google it if you think I'm BS'ing you)

Guinea pigs aren't even related to swine ..they're rodents like rats

They're rodents. Not pigs. Influenza rarely crosses the species barrier. That's why this flu is so questionable, because it crossed the species barrier. So who knows...if it affects pigs, birds and humans we don't know what other creatures might be susceptible to catching it.

I hope you haven't put that guinea pig,up the back passage! The draught coming under the door,might make it ill! ;]

we're all Guinea pigs for government and big business

Yes they are. But where they originate in South America they are not safe from the cooking pot.

Apparently they are good eating.