Ken<p>Significant health news from <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DrEricFeiglDing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DrEricFeiglDing</span></a></p><p>H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Oregon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Oregon</span></a>, the first detection of the virus in swine in the US. Pigs represent a particular concern for the spread of bird flu because they can become **co-infected with bird and human viruses**, which could swap genes to form a new, more dangerous virus that can more easily infect humans.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/H5N1BirdFlu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>H5N1BirdFlu</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/H5N1" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>H5N1</span></a><br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StaySafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StaySafe</span></a> <br /><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UsePPE" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>UsePPE</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.opb.org/article/2024/10/30/avian-influenza-pigs-oregon/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">opb.org/article/2024/10/30/avi</span><span class="invisible">an-influenza-pigs-oregon/</span></a></p>