In this article, we discuss some of the most common viral pig diseases in South Africa, and what farmersshould do to prevent ...

Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird ...

Public health experts are concerned that the first detection of H5N1 bird flu in a pig could mean the next step in ...

U.S. Department of Agriculture officials say there is no concern about the safety of the nation’s pork supply The first known case of avian influenza in a pig in the United States was confirmed ...

If you’ve been on Twitter/X over the weekend, you may have seen a strange sight: a shirt of a smiling, overweight pig enjoying a sauna session. No, this wasn’t a hallucination, it was the ...

The pig is usually food for people, Feng says, but “at least in my family, I hope it can live happily.” (Pet pigs can communicate with humans—especially when food is involved.) Seven months ...

As digital scamming explodes in Southeast Asia, including so called “pig butchering” investment scams, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a comprehensive report this ...

A professor of religious studies explores how the pig became the ultimate Jewish taboo — and an inadvertent marker of Jewish identity. In 2021, the Orthodox Union declined to put its kosher ...

Federal officials announced Wednesday that the H5N1 bird flu virus had been found in a pig for the first time ... H5N1 is highly contagious, and similar shared environments have enabled ...