CAIRO, May 3 (UPI) -- Egyptian swine farmers reportedly threw projectiles at police in Cairo Sunday in protest of a plan to cull Egypt's pigs to prevent the spread of swine flu.
SAN DIEGO, May 3 (UPI) -- Health experts say they've traced the H1N1 swine flu virus to a 10-year-old boy from a military family in the San Diego area.
CAIRO, May 2 (UPI) -- Egyptian authorities have begun slaughtering 300,000 pigs as a precaution against swine flu, officials said.
BEIJING, April 30 (UPI) -- Chinese government officials called reports that the H1N1 swine flu outbreak originated in China baseless.
CAIRO, April 29 (UPI) -- Egypt began killing thousands of pigs Wednesday to keep swine flu out of the country.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., April 28 (UPI) -- A Purdue University veterinarian says flu viruses are named for the first animal in which they are found; the current swine flu was discovered in pigs in 1930.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- A federally funded study suggests U.S. farmers, veterinarians and meat processors have a markedly high risk of infection from flu viruses spread by pigs.
IOWA CITY, Iowa, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Iowa researchers say the potential role for spreading diseases including avian bird flu among those in the swine industry has been overlooked.
