Pigs drawn into poultry flu crisis

AMSTERDAM — The avian flu ravaging the Dutch poultry industry has been passed on to pigs, giving rise to fears it could merge with the human flu virus pigs already carry to create a new deadly pathogen, Agriculture Minister Cees Veerman said.
calendar icon 17 April 2003
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