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OTTAWA - German scientists are warning of a pig pandemic after tests suggested the swine flu can pass from humans to hogs and then infect a whole herd.
The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population.
PARIS (AFP) - Pigs, fingered as the source of so-called swine flu, can also be infected by humans, German scientists said on Thursday.
LONDON (Reuters) - There is a growing risk that pigs will catch the new H1N1 flu strain -- commonly known as swine flu -- from humans, German researchers said on Thursday.
( Society for General Microbiology ) The strain of influenza, A/H1N1, that is currently pandemic in humans has been shown to be infectious to pigs and to spread rapidly in a trial pig population. In Journal of General Virology, Dr. Thomas Vahlenkamp from Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut in Germany, infected five pigs with the human strain of swine flu. Within four days the virus had spread to three ...
WUHAN, China, July 9 (UPI) -- A Chinese team of scientists has identified the protein composition of venom from the Scorpiops jendeki scorpion.
AFP. PARIS. Pigs, fingered as the source of so-called swine flu, can also be infected by humans, German scientists said yesterday.
There is a growing risk that pigs will catch the new H1N1 flu strain -- commonly known as swine flu -- from humans, German researchers said. Widespread transmission from people to pigs could mix up virus strains further, leading to unpredictable changes in the disease.
Hyderabad, July 9 (PTI) A 28-year-old woman today tested positive for swine flu in the city, taking the number of those affected to 21 in the state, hospital sources said.
St. Clair Shores, Mich. - A few thousand dead fish, mostly smallmouth bass, washed up on the western shore of Lake St. Clair in early June. The cause of the die-off is being investigated by research biologists at the Michigan State University Aquatic Animal Health Laboratory in East Lansing.
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