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Two young children were reported to have contracted a new 'hybrid' influenza virus, a gene 're-assortment' that appears to have successfully jumped from pigs to humans and again from one human to another.
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Lagos is one of the most populous and fastest growing cities in Africa. With its traffic, its green project, unpredictable daily street dramas and dirt, the Nigerian commercial hub is a 'mixed bag' of sort.
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Pigs are busy making the UK’s New Forest safe for other animals. They are gobbling up green acorns, which are poisonous to horses, ponies and cattle.
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Using animals for human purposes isn't anything new. But using animals as more than a source of food, or as companions usually generates controversy, particularly when scientists want to conduct tests on animals.
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Taiwan is a small island nation that loves to eat pork. With an estimated six million pigs being raised on the main island, mostly in the south, water quality issues have become an epic battle that the government has been fighting against.
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Animal rights group PETA has been told that they can't bring live pigs to the White House because of swine flu fears, despite the knowledge that swine do not spread the H1N1 virus that is attacking the nation.
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An international group of scientists has decoded the DNA of the domestic pig, research that may one day prove useful in finding new treatments for both pigs and people.
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Pigs seem to be hogging the medical headlines lately. Studies in the Philippines have now proven that pigs carry a form of the Ebola virus. It’s not dangerous to humans, but of the Ebola viruses, this form is the only one that isn’t.
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A team of scientists from Iowa State University are conducting research by putting flu vaccines into the genetic makeup of corn.
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Researchers now believe that the swine flu is not new at all and has been circulating undetected in pigs for years. A mixture of mixtures involving human, pig and bird genes, its origins remain a mystery. Read on for more details, but avoid pork.
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Pigs Headlines
Chandler Beach's prized pig fetched $20,000 to benefit Corbin Wiggins.
An "explosion" in unwanted guinea pigs prompts a Cambridgeshire charity to teach animal "sexing" techniques to pet shops.
A pig's head is found outside a mosque in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur - the third such incident in the country in a month, police say.
Chile is evacuating nearly half a million pigs from one of the largest meat processing plants in Latin America after the foul smell sparked riots.
An edible dowry for an Australian bride in Papua New Guinea
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