Showing posts with label pigs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pigs. Show all posts
Friday, August 16, 2013

HKU: A Novel Paramyxovirus in Pigs

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  Parainfluenza virus. – Credit CDC PHIL     # 7576   History has shown that pigs can be an efficient reservoir host and ` mix...
Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Arch Virology: Isolation Of H5N1 In Swine – China

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Since pigs can be infected by more than one flu virus at the same time, it is possible for two viruses to swap genetic material ( reassort...
Tuesday, April 09, 2013

China: Currently No Positive H7N9 Tests In Pigs

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Credit Wikipedia     # 7102   Determining the reservoir host ( or hosts) for the emerging H7N9 virus remains a a top priority (...
Monday, March 11, 2013

Shanghai Govt.: Thousands Of Dead Pigs Retrieved From River

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    Location Shanghai China   # 6996   The Huangpu river - a tributary of the Yangtze that rolls across 113 km of China’s count...
Saturday, March 09, 2013

A Streptococcus suis Round Up

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  Credit Japan’s NARO ( National Agriculture and Research Organization ) # 6993 This morning Hong Kong’s CHP is reporting a ...
Friday, November 16, 2012

When Viruses Jump Cages

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  Ebola Virus - Credit CDC   # 6722     With Uganda’s second outbreak of Ebola Sudan in recent months announced earlier this ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Osterholm: Time To Close The Pig Barns

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Credit Wikipedia     # 6504   While the CDC has yet to find evidence of sustained and efficient human-to-human transmission of...
Friday, July 27, 2012

H3N2v: CDC Offers Advice To Fair Goers

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  Credit Wikipedia   # 6455   In the wake of this week’s announcement of another fair-related outbreak of H3N2v influenza (see ...
Friday, December 24, 2010

Branswell: Podcast On Flu Factories

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      # 5175     If you were tasked with finding a medical reporter with a better understanding of influenza than Helen Branswel...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

UK: Flu Prevalence In Pigs

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    # 4898     A presentation at the 21st International Pig Veterinary Society (IPVS) Congress held last July in Vancouver, Cana...
Thursday, September 09, 2010

When Pigs Flu

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    # 4884     For the second time in a month we’ve a study on reassortant influenza viruses in pigs.  The first one I wrote about...
Thursday, September 02, 2010

A Bold Bird Flu Headline From Japan

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    # 4860     Arkanoid Legent has a story this morning from the Asahi Shimbun in Japan with this attention getting headline: ...