Scientists worry the species could generate a hybrid virus better able to spread to and among people
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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 ...
Viruses grow and evolve in many animal hosts, and pigs allow them to become especially dangerous. (Unsplash/) We first learned about COVID-19 when headlines proclaimed that the virus was already ...
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