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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

Okay, here we go.

H5 and 1 bird flu has now been detected in a pig in the United States for the first time.

Now, pigs are considered a mixing vessel for flu viruses because they can harbor bird-andihuman flu viruses at the same time,

increasing the threat of a new hybrid strain that can more easily infect people.

Now, according to U.S. officials, the risk to the public remains low, so you don't have to worry about it.

Many health officials have said pigs were the source of the 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic.

Wait, what?

They were?

Yes, yes, they were.

Now, they, the U.S. officials, have said that they sequenced the genome of the virus found in poultry on this farm in Oregon and did not identify any changes to the virus that indicate it's more transmissible to humans.

So the swine livestock shared water sources, housing, and equipment with infected poultry on the farm

and the farm is a non-commercial operation in Oregon and so apparently there's no threat to the

U.S. pork supply uh-huh but the site has been quarantined. The pigs have been called.

So we shot them.

Yeah, I'm not sure.

I'm not sure if they did that.

I'm not sure if they burned them.

I'm not sure if they hung them by a rope.

But they took care of them.

And so now, according to U.S. authorities, other animals, including sheep and the goats, remain under surveillance.

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