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#19,257

While avian flu continues to sit at - or near the top of - most people's pandemic threat lists, swine influenza viruses (which often spread stealthily in pigs) may pose similar risks.  

Unlike many avian flu, swine variant viruses are already well adapted to a mammalian host, and in many ways porcine physiology is remark...

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#19,256
While running a distant 2nd to H5N1, a spin-off ressortant - HPAI H5N5 - continues to make inroads in northern Europe, Canada, and the United States (see March 2026's Viral Creep: H5N5 Update), and in the ...

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#19,255

As alarming as the spillover of HPAI H5N1 to dairy cattle has been, the mammalian livestock species believed to have the greatest potential for spawning new reassortant viruses is swine, which are known to harbor a wide variety of influenza A viruses.  
Although detections in swine have been limited, we've seen scattered evidence that H5N1...

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Biosecurity Violations - Photo Credit MAFRA

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South Korean farmers, and their agricultural department (MAFRA), have been dealing with outbreaks of HPAI H5 for more than 2 decades, and yet they continue to report major biosecurity lapses leadin...


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Although reporting has been sporadic, since 2021 China has reported at least 7 human infection with LPAI H10N3. The most recent case (Dec 2025) was announced by Hong Kong last February in an cryptic 


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