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It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States — a troubling development, as this gives the pathogen another mammalian reservoir that could raise the risk of a pandemic.

After working with farms in Wales and England, he concluded that the pathogen which caused the spread of bTB was present in large quantities in the faeces of cattle which can contaminate food and water for the animals.

"At the root of it all there are certain principles which need to be followed which are really keeping the pathogen from progressing throughout a herd, cutting off its line of transmission," Sir Brian said.

While analysing cattle faeces, the bTB pathogen M. Bovis was found.

The complaint alleged that at the beginning of the year, Hawaiian state health officials detected listeria monocytogenes, the bacterial pathogen that can cause listeria infection, in cheese made by the company.