swine flu

Another pandemic? New swine flu identified in China could jump to humans
[A] new finding that pigs in China are more and more frequently becoming infected with a strain of influenza that ...

Does ‘factory farming’ increase our risk of experiencing pandemics?
Some experts have hypothesized that the novel coronavirus made the jump from animals to humans in China’s wet markets, just ...

‘Perfect storm’: Why the coronavirus shut the world down, when SARS, Ebola and swine flu didn’t
In the past two decades, the world battled Ebola, SARS and more than one major flu outbreak. Those left tragedies ...

Will our ‘insatiable desire’ to eat meat cause the next disease pandemic?
It’s easy for those of us in the Western world to shake our heads at the live wildlife markets in ...

CRISPR-edited pigs could blunt swine fever epidemic threatening China’s food supply
Inside a fortresslike megafarm on the outskirts of Beijing, dozens of pink and black pigs forage and snooze, unfazed by ...