A vaccine that protects piglets from one common influenza virus also makes them more vulnerable to a rarer flu strain,
The team gave piglets a vaccine against H1n2 influenza. The animals responded by making antibodies that blocked that virus but aided infection with the swine flu H1n1,
and caused more severe pneumonia in vaccinated piglets than unvaccinated ones. The root of the different immune responses lies with the mushroom-shaped haemagglutinin protein found on the outside of influenza-virus particles
In the study, a vaccine for H1n2 spurred pigs to produce antibodies that bound the cap and the stem of that virus s haemagglutinin.
That made H1n1 more efficient at infecting pigs and causing disease. The finding may give some vaccine developers pause.
And differences between pigs and humans make it difficult to interpret how relevant the findings are to the development of human vaccines,
Pig-manure fertilizer linked to human MRSA infections  People living near pig farms or agricultural fields fertilized with pig manure are more likely to become infected with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria,
according to a paper published today in JAMA Internal Medicine1. Previous research has found that livestock workers are at high risk of carrying MRSA,
where manure from pig farms is often spread on crop fields to comply with state regulations for manure disposal.
whether infected people lived near pig farms or agricultural land where pig manure was spread.
They found that people who had the highest exposure to manure calculated on the basis of how close they lived to farms,
whether the MRSA strains carried in pig manure are the same as the MRSA strains found in nearby human infections.
the authors should have analysed more strains from poultry and pigs, which also carry S. enterica."
such as pigs and anchovies, in the global food web.""We are closer to herbivore than carnivore,
Pig virus spreads Canada confirmed its first case of porcine epidemic diarrhoea virus on 23 Â January.
and vomiting in pigs, was detected on a farm in Middlesex County, Ontario. First identified in the United kingdom in 1971, the virus can kill 80-100%of infected piglets.
It caused mass epidemics in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s. Last spring, the United states reported its first case (see Nature 499,388;
Study revives bird origin for 1918 flu pandemicthe virus that caused the 1918 influenza pandemic probably sprang from North american domestic and wild birds, not from the mixing of human and swine viruses.
pigs and bats using a model they developed to map evolutionary relationships between viruses from different host species. The branched tree that resulted showed that the genes of the deadly 1918 pandemic virus are of avian origin.
and swine for at least 2 to 15 years before the pandemic and combined to make the lethal virus. Gavin Smith, an evolutionary biologist at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical school at the National University of Singapore,
"It shows the evidence for a pig origin is a lot weaker, but it s almost impossible to completely shut the door on that.
Pig cow sheep rooster duck horse--these are farm animals which in America's collective agrarian past were members of the household.
which he published (with a mildly NSFW video) in a hyper-readable study in PLOS ONE Spontaneous ejaculation has thus far been recorded in drowsy rats guinea pigs domestic cats warthogs horses and chimpanzees according to the study.
In addition some farmers give their cows pigs and chickens low doses of antibiotics to make them grow faster.
http://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pubmed/11897278http://www. nvic. org/NVIC-Vaccine-News/April-2010/Vaccine-Contamination-Pig-Virus
If the antibiotic is on the FDA s list of drugs that are used related to drugs to fight infections in people including everything from bronchitis to urinary tract infections to Lyme disease to infections after surgeries then the agency is asking companies to stop their use for fattening up pigs chickens
In contrast livestock such as pigs and cows are expensive produce noxious chemicals such as methane and ammonia and take up land
And meat comes in soo many diff forms that you could get everything you need. birdmeat cattle pigs fish craps/lobster snails and maggots and oysters...
People and livestock (pigs chickens cows) are the most likely source of the majority of the carbon increase.
As an eye-opening feature in Discover describes the eggs can get swept up by pigs as the animals forage for food.
The larvae hatch in a pig's stomach and make their way into its bloodstream eventually arriving at its muscles where it will likely be eaten by a human in say a pork taco.
Someone contaminates food with tapeworm eggs bound for a pig's stomach. The tapeworm eggs hatch but instead of developing into an adult tapeworm in the intestines they burrow into the bloodstream as would normally occur in a pig.
In a human they often end up in the brain forming cysts that cause a disease called neurocysticercosis.
Factory farm animals like cows pigs and chickens consume massive amounts of grain water and land and require the deforestation of huge swathes of the planet.
Pigs! In this study they found major health issues to the pigs'uteri and stomach. That's one of the very few long term experiments conducted
and the case has been highlighted because of the use of rats. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat strain that SÃ Â ralini used is used also in long-term 2-year toxicity
Now to the pigs Conclusion Pigs fed a GMO diet exhibited heavier uteri and a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation than pigs fed a comparable non-GMO diet.
Given the widespread use of GMO feed for livestock as well as humans this is a cause for concern.
Humans have a similar gastrointestinal tract to pigs and these GM CROPS are consumed widely by people particularly in the USA
if the findings of this study are applicable to humans. www centerforfoodsafety. org/press-releases/2291/new-peer-reviewed-study-on-gmo-pig-feed-reveals-adverse-effectsthe case study:
First Long term Study Released on Pigs Cattle Who Eat GMO Soy and Corn Offers Frightening Results www. nationofchange. org/first-long-term-study-released-pigs-cattle-who-eat-gmo-soy
-and-corn-offers-frightening-results-13723stunning Corn Comparison: GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect. The amount of livestock we have now has a large environmental impact.
With an exponentially growing population of 8. 3 billion there isn't enough feed in the world to keep that number of cattle pigs
#What Pig Carcasses Could Teach Coroners About Human death A dead pig is a good proxy for a dead person:
On land this dark research is easy place the pig somewhere and watch it rot. But what about bodies at sea?
she sent divers to place pig carcasses underwater and chronicled the decay that followed as crabs shrimp
The researchers used a remotely operated vehicle to plunk a pig in view of a camera
Twenty-two pigs later and with more scheduled for this fall Anderson's team is learning how to tell
Two pigs are tethered to an instrument platform to keep sea critters from dragging them out of camera range.
The deep-sea vehicle Ropos (remotely operated platform for ocean sciences) delivers the pigs and their instrument platform to a node and plugs in a webcam and sensors with dexterous arms.
In order to capture the pigs'decomposition on video four lights flash on for a few minutes every quarter hour (constant light would scare away too many animals changing how the pigs decay.
which could impact how the pigs decompose. The platform's bottom is plastic mesh which lets silt microbes eat away at the pigs while collecting the bones for later study (by Lynne Bell a forensics anthropologist at Simon Fraser University).
Sea lice mob devours pig from the inside out Sandrine Ceurstemont editor New Scientist TVTHIS article originally appeared in the July 2013 issue of Popular Science.
See the rest of the magazine here. I think Texas A&m has been burying pigs for a few years or more.
They have shown that many of the conclusions forensic's has taught may be wrong or at least wrong enough to look at new data a
Then one mouse could conceive a larger mousses embryo and so on until it s large enough to be engineered to give birth to a pig.
Then a genetically altered pig gives birth to a chimp and finally from chimp to humans.
Also keep in mind that pigs may soon produce custom human pancreases in the near future other organs to follow.
and replacing it with a clone pigs may create organ tolerance for that child. Like wisdom teeth or an injection of cells from the pig into the child cut belly button.
If it s about the blastocyst and not development it would be a work around for pig organ transplants in humans s
#Carbon Test Determines Whether A Piece Of Ivory Is Legal Or Illegalone way poachers get the big elephants they want is by shooting a baby elephant first.
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so his focus has shifted of late to our friend the pig. The technique involves taking genetically engineered pig embryos that are incapable of growing their own pancreases
and implanting human stem cells. The pig embryos will then grow amazingly a human pancreas.
When the piglets are born the pancreas is harvested and then can be implanted into a human in need.
Pigs are chosen because they're common and well-understood and also because their organs are of similar size to our own.
Japan currently has a ban on what's called in vivo experiments meaning within the living Essentially Japanese law forbids experiments that involve a whole living creature like these piglets.
In vitro or within the glass is permitted. Nakauchi has for years been campaigning to change this law
How happy are those pancreas-less piglets really? It's a debate without easy answers
Poor piglets. They do reciprocate human love at a young age. Intelligent species. Sad. Do not try
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She was able to grow it back with the use of a powder made of ground-up pig bladder (seriously) called Matristem
This is a good advance indeed. 1-Ground up pigs bladder 1-extract of human finger nailall you need to do is say the magic words
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(and for you nautalist out there-a buffalo and a cow are two different things)--look at pigs-no such thing as a wild pig-they change into a wild boar-they look
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#We're Losing The Battle Against Wild Pigsfrom Berlin to Mississippi feral pigs are proving to be one of the most efficient and dangerous invasive species ever known.
The fact is hunting wild pig can be difficult and dangerous...and the cost/availability of ammo doesn't help. 1) Request a truckload of US Marine snipers to set up in any county of your choosing you won't know they're even there.
They only sign of them ever being there is a zone free of pig and a faint scent of bacon.
Wild pig meat is popoular in Europe and pepole pay extra for it. So what it they are smarter than deer.
Also I do not understand where there would be a problem in finding the proper caliber of rifle to hunt pigs with Lol they are just like humans but bullet resistant.
Is there really a losing battle going on against wild pigs? I don't see one. It's a problem that's not being addressed.
and cape buffalo there's one for Ms. Piggy. Seriously a line of snipers and some old school animal drives ought to take care of the problem
On the one hand we're told that pigs are causing damage in 47 states. And in another article we're told that their natural predators wolves have been taken off the endangered species list
Check out Youtube to see wolves taking down boars. Trapping them in cages and selling them too Europe works the best people have jobs doing this.
I heard that in Texas the bounty on them is around $10 per pig. Not much of an incentive to get rid of the problem.
In Alberta they're $50 per pig and some counties will give you an additional $50 per pig for a total of $100.
That is a worthwhile use of your timethey're yummy and the price for their meat is higher than for beef.
has had anyone here wild boar They are very gamey tasting and not very good you basically have to cook them a very particular way to get them to taste good
They should start holding sporting contests with cash prizes for the biggest boar brought in much like a fishing tournement this might drive the population down.
if these wild pigs have been unto acorns in their diet while free-roaming they should taste good--provided they be gutted asap once killed. a trip in southern Spain exposed
me to the delectable hamon Iberico. the black Ibverian pig w c is indigenous in southern Spain
Animals like cows and pigs can digest cellulose thanks to symbiotic bacteria in their digestive tracts
v=Urvfcqghslqkuka is doing this with pigs already http://www. kuka-robotics. com/canada/en/solutions/solutions search/L r280 050528 westfleisch. htman overhead conveyor keeps the carcasses moving continuously through the slaughtering line at a speed of 170
This is necessary as the pigs are all of different weights and sizes and have differing anatomical features.
The first robot in the line a KR 30 equipped with a double shackle then cuts off the pigs front feet at a defined position.
Following a renewed 3d laser measurement a KR 60 also installed in the inverted position breaks the pig s pelvic bone with a cutting tool resembling a cleaver and scores the abdominal wall.
Foot-and-mouth disease infects cows pigs and sheep giving the animals fevers and blisters and reducing the amount of milk they give.
#16,000 Dead Pigs In The Huangpu: Can You Still Drink Shanghai's Water? Chinese officials have fished more than 16000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River from
which more than one in five Shanghai residents draw their drinking water. Remember when it was just 2000 pigs
and that seemed pretty crazy? Meanwhile officials keep saying that the water is still safe to drink.
Pig carcasses dumped in water could release pathogenic bacteria into the water. Even healthy pigs carry some manure in their bodies
which in turn has E coli that could cause diarrhea and other symptoms. The greatest danger would come from carcasses left long enough that they bloat
Popular Science asked experts from two groups that work on water quality in China to weigh in on the pigs'potential effects on Shanghai's drinking water.
It is hard to know for sure what the effects of the pigs have been because those data points aren't publicly available Macdonald says.
They have added also non-routine tests to target the pig situation looking for Streptococcus Salmonella E coli O157 and thermotolerant coliform bacteria.
Although they offer daily updates on the Huangpu's water quality Chinese officials haven't explained why farmers have chosen recently against regulations to dump so many pigs into the river the Guardian reported March 22.
me that the farmers that were raising the pigs decided this is the best option Macdonald says.
There was a news article in Chinese World Journal newspaper about why the farmers dump the pigs.
For every dead pig government is suppose to pay 80 Chinese Yuan to the farmer to help them control the cost.
On top of that there was a crack down on the illicit dealers of dead pigs who would buy these dead pig for 50 a piece.
Having no outlet for the dead pigs and they don't want to spend money to properly dispose of the pigs the farmers dump the pigs in the river.
Dead pigs are bought by those dealers for meat and skin. Don't ask where they end up!
The proper disposal of the pigs are supposed to be decomposition sites where they are reduced like other organic matter.
So it's safe water. And the most powerful people in Shanghai no doubt provide this safe water for their own children to drink yes?
what's already in that water 16000 dead pigs is as nothing. Luckily for the Shanghainese of that locale the presence of a dead body in water and the hazards borne of it are one of the oldest and easiest lessons learned by humans.
Whiter rabbits will always do better in snow than black rabbits shorter-legged boars will always do better in denser jungles) The still unproven part of the evolutionary theory (it's still a theory) is Macro Evolution.
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On Dec 26 a grand jury handed down several indictments against the owners of the Columbia Packing Company for dumping pig blood into a creek.
Meat from two Irish processing plants has been found to contain substantial portions of pig and curiously horse DNA.
and it's likely that many would have no objection to eating pig or even horsemeat.
neither pig nor horse is kosher and pig is not halal. The second is that
even though these samples of meat are safe it does not speak very highly of the regulation in place for meat processing especially in the UK
or pig but not eat something that looks healthy and beautiful as a horse???get outta heere!!!
not to mention how dirty cows and pigs are compared to horses@solarflaredont be an animal racist. ---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
and as long as they keep buying his stuff they don't even have to become a disgusting porker;
#German Boars Are Too Radioactive To Eatin Germany boar meat is considered a delicacy consumed in various forms such as salami and boar leg.
But now German restaurant-goers may want to rethink ordering boar the next time they dine out (and it s not because of boar taint.
According to the Telegraph recent testing in the state of Saxony has revealed that more than one-in-three wild boar in Germany are so radioactive that they're considered unfit for human consumption.
Boar carcasses are supposed not to exceed radiation levels of 600 becquerels per kilogram but in the past year 297 out of 752 boar tested in Saxony have su this safe amount.
Some boars have tested even dozens of times over. The illuminating trend is thought to be a lingering effect of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster one of the worst nuclear power plant accidents in history.
More than 28 years ago a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl Nuclear power Plant in Soviet-run Ukraine releasing radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
And since wild boar dig through soil for food they are affected particularly by this contamination. They also eat underground mushrooms and deer truffles
Apparently researchers have been cataloguing this pattern of boar radioactivity for some time and they don t believe it ll go away any time soon.
Experts predict it may be another 50 years before boar radiation levels return to normal the Telegraph notes.
In the meantime Germans should keep an eye out for any boars exhibiting super powers e
#How The World Wastes Food Infographic Every year the planet loses nearly a third of its food staggering 1. 4 billion tons.
The strain normally infected pigs and was seen rarely in humans. Then in 2012 healthcare workers across the U s. reported 309 human cases of influenza A (H3n2) variant also known as H3n2v.
Epidemiological studies indicated nearly all of the people who became sick with H3n2v in 2012 caught it from prize piggies shown at county fairs.
Now a new in depth study of the genetics of H3n2v in swine and humans in Ohio shows the epidemiological studies were right.
Samples of flu viruses taken from pigs and from people in Ohio during the 2012 outbreak were genetically close to one another according to the study
which involved swabbing the insides of 834 pigs's noses. We've decided pig boogers=poogers.
That means the outbreak really did come straight from infected pigs. In addition all of the cases recorded across the state were more than 99.5 percent similar to one another genetically indicating that it was just one flu strain that took residence in humans and swine alike.
It's a little funny to think of getting a flu from a pig at the county fair.
That's not exactly the kind of scene you imagine for the beginning of a sci-fi movie about the next big pandemic.
Yet pigs are a crucial petri dish in which influenza viruses evolve. Swine are susceptible to avian human
and swine flus and these virus can circulate inside pigs for varying lengths of time with no signs of illness.
This makes them great meet-markets for flu viruses to exchange genetic material. The H1n1 flu that reached pandemic proportions in 2009 first spent some time circulating among pigs in Asia Europe and North america.
Luckily H3n2v doesn't readily move between people which limits its ability to spread. People mostly catch it directly from swine.
The U s. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that people who are susceptible to complications from the flu--such as young kids older adults
and pregnant women--avoid pig barns at fairs. Keeping away from sick-looking pigs is important but not adequate.
Many of the pigs found to be carrying H3n2v looked healthy. The CDC also has a bunch of recommendations about hand-washing and not eating in pig barns
which doesn't sound appetizing anyway but I can imagine if you just nabbed yourself some funnel cake you might be tempted.
Don't do it! Nobody recommends avoiding agricultural fairs altogether. You can't get H3n2v from eating pork.
The study did find the virus was pretty widespread. Out of 40 unnamed fairs where researchers swabbed piggy noses 10 had more than one animal that carried H3n2v.
And even more scary six of those seven fairs didn't have any sick-looking pigs.
Public health departments should monitor pigs closely for Influenza a viruses the study authors wrote in their paper
A nasty virus that causes severe diarrhea in pigs has killed off an estimated 5-10 percent of pigs in the United states causing prices to rise dramatically.
but the disease is deadly to piglets. Breakfast prognosis: Pricier pork products are definitely here
non-primate mammals such as pigs sheep and cows. Humans don t make the sugar and we all have some form of immune response to it.
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