Through The Thin Green Line, which led to a Grist blog, but ultimately comes from a biosurveillance blog, there might be a link to a Smithfield-owned farm. Look at that last link - the original source - which provides a timeline, showing on April 6 that locals suspect the virus to come from a Granjas Carroll farm. Story picked up by the Huffington Post.
If you want to understand how long ago the origins of this swine influenza may be, read this Google translated article here, thanks to the Huffington Post.
Given the spread of the virus through a peculiar pattern in the US - note that Los Angeles and Phoenix have not had any current reports of infections - I'd suggest that the swine influenza is being under-reported by the illegal population in the US, and many people may have mistakenly assumed their ailments as the standard flu. With the geographic proximity and the amount of traffic between the border states and Mexico, you would automatically assume these states would have the highest reported incidents. Yet the largest reported cluster is that of students visiting Cancun, over 700 miles away from the epicenter of the outbreak, and Mexico City - currently under lockdown - is also over 200 miles away.
The end of this story is not clear.
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