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FAO/OIE/WHO: Tripartite Statement on the Pandemic Risk of Swine Influenza

FAO/OIE/WHO: A recent report on the circulation of influenza viruses in the swine population in China has alerted the world to the pandemic risk associated with swine influenza viruses.

IAV-S: Focus for control must include the farrowing unit

PODTAIL.COM: “Piglets as well as sows play a key role in transmitting the virus”, says Pia Ryt-Hansen...

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IAV-S Mutation risk of a persistent year-round infection

PODTAIL.COM: “People coming into the herd should at least have a vaccination against influenza”, warns Dr. Pia Ryt-Hansen...

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Professor: Risiko for at svin kan udløse ny pandemi

DR.DK: Svin har tidligere været årsag til en pandemi, og det kan ske igen, vurderer professor.

FluZooMark Seeks to Get Ahead of Potentially Deadly Zoonotic Swine Flus

FEEDINFO.COM: FluZooMark seeks to find viral and host factors that predict whether a strain will progress to a “stage 3” pandemic, wherein it is able to replicate in people. “It’s not surveillance, it’s more basic...

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Forskningsprojekt med svin skal ruste os til fremtidens pandemier

ING.DK: Ligesom den nuværende coronavirus stammer fra flagermus og skældyr, er der risiko for, at en ny pandemi kan opstå ved at en influenzavirus hopper fra grise til mennesker. Derfor arbejder forskere på at...

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Researchers want to detect dangerous influenza viruses

DTU BIOENGINEERING: An international research team aim at finding biological markers for when the flu virus has the potential to jump from animals to humans.

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Surveillance Report on Influenza A abundance in Danish Swine

VETSSI.DK: We have just finalized the annual surveillance report 2019 on the prevalence of Influenza A viruses (IAV) in Danish pigs. The results again confirm the co-circulation of a variety of variants harboring...

Mapping the influenza viruses that can be transmitted from animals to people

SCIENCENEWS.DK: When a virus suddenly spreads from animals to people, this can herald the start of a worldwide pandemic that can kill thousands of people – just as we see it now with COVID-19. Influenza...

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Lars presenting FluZooMark at CPH Pig

KEY NOTE LECTURE: Lars was key note speaker at the CPH Pig seminar 29-Jan-2020, giving a nice introduction to the FluZooMark project. Watch the presentation, browse the slides, and read more about CPH Pig.