Pigs Recovering from H1N1 Virus

The infection was discovered among a herd of 160 pigs on a farm in Taitung County's Guanshan.

A Council of Agriculture (COA) official at the Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine, told Taiwan News that tests conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on 5 November showed all the affected pigs free of the virus.

A third round of tests is will be conducted on 11 November.

The COA spokesman said that the most probable cause of the outbreak was contact with humans.

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