Taiwan's Pigs No Longer Under H1N1 Flu Threat

The Taiwanese veterinary authorities sent Follow-up Report No. 1 to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) last week (13 November).

The cause of the outbreak has still not been confirmed. A real-time reverse transcriptase/polymerase chain reaction (RRT-PCR) test was conducted and the results came out negative.

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