Sentences with phrase «pig virus»

Tests failed to pin the outbreak, which has since waned, on common pig viruses.

When given to ferrets, it produces a disease whose symptoms are all but identical to the Iowan pig virus.

After a flood of optimism and investment in the early 1990's, the struggle to overcome host immune response and fears that organs could transmit pig viruses to humans scared off pharmaceutical funders.

And researchers still have to worry about pig viruses that could be transplanted into humans along with the organs.

But ferrets that have had the human virus are not fully immune to the pig virus, showing that the two viruses have already started to evolve apart.

That and PERVs — those pig viruses — sunk those efforts; xeno was dead in the water for 15 years.

There is already a human H3N2 — a distant cousin of this pig virus — so some way to differentiate the viruses is needed.

Again the question is, it's not a pig virus because we are not seeing it circulating in pigs.

So is this a pig virus?

Tests confirmed that five pigs have pseudorabies, a pig virus that agriculture officials aggressively try to keep out of commercial herds.

Essentially, the problem with the vaccine is that a pig virus has been found to contaminate the vaccine.