Sentences with phrase «about pig viruses»

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Dr. Butler - Jones: Certainly, two things about that I guess, firstly as it's been said, we do see from time to time and this is something that people would not know that in fact human viruses can be spread to pig.

Canadians clarify details about the pig farm outbreak, noting that others on the farm developed influenza - like illness but have tested negative for the virus.

Researchers are «now looking very carefully to see if they have in their freezers samples from pigs or other animals that might provide a missing link and information about intermediate viruses that could help narrow down the time and place of emergence of this novel influenza virus,» said Cox.

So we still have a lot to learn about this, but I wouldn't presume, I mean it's a swine in terms of it's, the components of the virus are largely from pigs originally.

You talked about the size of the operation, can you tell us how many pigs are actually infected with the virus?

Question: What about, I guess the assumption was always that the virus may have started in pigs and then transmitted to humans and then humans started passing it on each other as a humans virus.

Now, the same groups have built more elaborate models that paint a detailed picture of how the British countryside was ravaged by the FMD virus, taking into account things such as the location of every farm, the estimated number of pigs, cattle, and sheep each farm contained, as well as exhaustive data about the spread of the disease and the culling process.