News tagged with pig farming

Taiwan culls 1,000 pigs in foot-and-mouth outbreak

Taiwanese authorities said Thursday they had slaughtered nearly 1,000 pigs following the island's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in more than 14 years.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wallowing in mud is more than just temperature control

(PhysOrg.com) -- While it is well accepted knowledge that pigs wallow in mud in order to regulate body temperature and keep cool, a new study published in Applied Animal Behavior Science shows that the wa ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 02, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

Mexico swine flu 'patient zero' was baby girl in February

Mexico's first known swine flu case was a six-month-old baby girl in a northern part of the country who had no known contact with pig farms, the head of a laboratory studying the virus told AFP Thursday.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Swine flu sweeping world at 'unprecedented speed': WHO

Swine flu has swept the globe at "unprecedented speed," the World Health Organisation said Friday, as a study warned the pandemic could tip the world into deflation and delay the economic recovery.

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created Jul 17, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 9

Scientists investigate Mexican town's flu mystery

(AP) -- No one has identified ground zero in the swine flu epidemic. Just where or when the new strain of influenza first jumped from a pig and began infecting people is a scientific mystery - one that a ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Computational Analysis Helps Researchers Understand Emerging H1N1 Flu Strain

As part of a broad-based effort to understand the precise genetic make-up of H1N1 - now being referred to as “swine flu” in North America - a group of virologists and computational biologists from Columbia ...

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created May 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Swine flu joins list of animal diseases that affect people

The swine flu virus that is smoldering in this country and triggering a full-blown outbreak in Mexico is one of a growing number of animal pathogens to jump the species barrier -- and may be the microbe that jumpstarts the ...

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created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0