News tagged with pig farming
MRSA in livestock acquired drug resistance on the farm, now infects humans
Researchers have discovered that a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria that humans contract from livestock was originally a human strain, but it developed resistance to antibiotics once i ...
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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 ...
May 02, 2011 |
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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, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 24, 2009 |
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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.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 17, 2009 |
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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 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 29, 2009 |
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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, Conditions, Syndromes
May 21, 2009 |
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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 ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 03, 2009 |
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