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Intensive pig farming linked to dangerous zoonotic pathogens, study warns

Intensive pig farming linked to dangerous zoonotic pathogens, study warns

In a recent study published within the journal PNAS, researchers investigated how large-scale livestock rearing may end in the emergence and transmission of novel, potentially zoonotic pathogens. They combined multiple lines of evidence from molecular dating, comparative genomic analyses, and phylogeography to look at how the rearing of pigs allowed for novel Streptococcus suis lineages, […]