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Bird flu detected in pigs – here’s why virologists are concerned

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par Ed Hutchinson, Professor, MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, University of Glasgow

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020. But why were we worrying specifically about pigs? And does this case – detected on a farm in Oregon on October 29 – change anything?

It might seem odd that we care about it at…

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