Sentences with phrase «u.s. pig farms»

The next pandemic virus may be circulating on U.S. pig farms, but health officials are struggling to see past the front gate

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It is important to remember that an individual's actions, both positive and negative, can have a direct impact upon themselves, the company they represent, the entire U.S. pork industry and pig farming as a profession.

Nelson and her colleagues found that flu in pigs «follows long - distance swine movements from the southern U.S. to the Midwest,» with most of the human - origin H1N1 arriving at Midwest hog farms coming from the Southeast, and most of the swine - origin H1N2 coming from the south - central U.S. And that means the Midwest, as the final destination for many of these pigs, is «likely to provide a reservoir for multiple genetically distinct variants to co-circulate and exchange segments via re-assortment because of the continual importation of swine influenza viruses from other regions,» the researchers noted.

They're in gyms, at the beach, and increasingly, on the farm.One strain of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) known as CC398 has been rapidly spreading through poultry and pig farms, infecting people who work with the animals around the world (up to 26.5 percent of farm workers sampled in the Neatherlands), and popping up in nearly half of all meat sampled in the U.S.

14 May A Texan whose pregnant wife died of swine flu takes legal action against the U.S. co-owner of a Mexican pig farm, Granjas Carroll, which he alleges may have kick - started the outbreak.

But according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of experimental cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, sheep, swine and primates has been dropping, from 1.5 million (not including many farm animals that are now counted) in 1973 to 1 million in 2006.