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The first human case of a new strain of swine flu has been detected in the UK, and health officials are trying to determine the virus's origin.On Monday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) verified that a person tested positive for Influenza A H1N2v, a distinct but similar virus to the flu viruses spreading in pigs across the country.According to preliminary data, the H1N2 infection in the UK is genetically unique from other recent human cases globally, specified by its clade or form, 1b.1.1."We are working rapidly to…

Researchers from North Carolina State University used the PigSpread computer model to analyze the potential spread of African swine fever among swine farms in the southeastern U.S., revealing that between-farm movements were the primary transmission route. While existing control measures could reduce secondary infections by up to 79%, an outbreak could still persist and result in substantial costs. (Artist’s concept)In a recent study conducted by North Carolina State University researchers, a computer model was employed…

Southeast Asia is preparing for a long war against African swine fever (ASF), a highly infectious and lethal disease that reached China in 2018 and has since spread south, threatening both domestic and wild pigs. After plans to eliminate it by euthanizing pigs on a large scale proved economically, logistically, and politically unworkable, authorities throughout the region have recognized that “we’ve got to learn to live with the virus,” says Dirk Pfeiffer, a…

NEW DELHI : The number of swine flu cases across the country has seen a 15-fold rise from last year with 11,450 cases reported this year so far against 778 cases in 2021. More importantly, 321…

The WHO on Saturday declared the surge in monkeypox to be a PHEIC after experts reviewed the situation at an emergency committee meeting two days earlier. Here is a look at how the decision is made and previous PHEIC declarations: What is a PHEIC? The conditions which must be met are set out under the 2005 International Health Regulations (IHR) -- the legal framework defining countries' rights and obligations in handling…

AGRICULTURE Vaccine targets African swine fever Vietnam’s agriculture ministry last week gave limited authorization to a vaccine hailed as an important tool to control one of the most serious animal diseases, African swine fever (ASF). In recent years the sickness has hit pig herds hard in several Asian and European countries. Vietnam’s National Veterinary Joint Stock Company developed the vaccine based on an ASF virus strain engineered by the U.S. Agricultural Research Service…