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

This means pigs can be infected with a bird flu virus and a human flu virus at the same time. These viruses can exchange genetic material to mutate and become easily transmissible in humans.

Because pigs can be infected by both bird and human ... which H5N1 could develop the necessary mutations that make it more transmissible between humans. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ...

Bird flu has been found in at least one pig at a backyard farm in Oregon ... not identified any changes that would suggest it is more transmissible to humans, according to USDA and the Centers ...

The first known case in the US, of a pig with avian influenza or bird flu ... any changes to the H5N1 virus that would suggest to USDA and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...