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This discovery is notable because bird and human flu viruses can exchange genetic material when they infect the same host, such as pigs.

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In addition to turkeys, residents include cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, llamas and emus.

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In agricultural settings, about 20% of intensively raised pigs develop osteoarthritis.

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The new technique has already produced positive results in animal studies involving mice and pigs.

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The European debt crisis of the early 2010s created an image of a continent cleaved in two: The fiscally responsible core countries led by Germany versus the spendthrift southern periphery of Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain—disdainfully dubbed PIGS.

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