swine

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A herd of pigs at a swine facility once charged at him, forcing him to jump out of the way while the farmhands chuckled.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

During the flu season that ended in September, 280 children died from flu — the most since the swine flu pandemic season of 2009-10.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2025

Taiwan has culled dozens of pigs after detecting its first cases of African swine fever, with the agriculture ministry saying Thursday no other infections have been detected elsewhere on the island.

From Barron's • Oct. 23, 2025

Experts have long recognized that the H5N1 virus that causes the disease has pandemic potential, just like COVID-19 or swine flu.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2025

The literature of veterinary medicine abounds in similar examples: swine eating sprayed cockleburs with consequent severe illness, lambs eating sprayed thistles, bees poisoned by pasturing on mustard sprayed after it came into bloom.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson