US reports first case of H5N1 bird flu virus in pigs

For the first time in America, A Pig According to officials, it is positive Bird flu virus H5N1 Tested. The swine infection was confirmed on Tuesday, four days after poultry at the same small farm in Oregon tested positive for the highly contagious virus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.

The infected animal and four pigs are kept there He was euthanized And to facilitate testing and analysis. It said two of these pigs have so far tested negative for H5N1, while the results of the other two are still pending. An infected pig shows no symptoms.

“This farm is a non-commercial operation and the animals are not for commercial food supply,” the Department of Agriculture said, adding that “there is no concern for the safety of the national pork supply.”

The farm was under Isolation To prevent further spread of the virus. Other animals on the farm, including sheep, are under surveillance.

Health experts are concerned about A growing number Avian influenza is expressed by infected mammals. They worry that increased transmission could allow a shift in the way the virus can be transmitted to people.

However, genetic samples from infected chickens at an Oregon farm “revealed no change in the H5N1 virus, which (….) Transmissible to humans The Ministry of Agriculture explained that the results of genetic samples from the infected pig are still pending.