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PNEUMONIA is more common in the pig than in any other domestic animal. Usually 20–60 per cent of pigs killed in slaughter-houses in the United Kingdom and Australia have some consolidation of the lungs. In the United States and also in Great Britain, much of the pneumonia in pigs has been thought to be due to the virus of swine influenza, a virus closely related to human influenza A virus. In addition to its economic importance, influenza in pigs is of interest owing to its connexion with disease in man: human strains can infect pigs naturally during epidemics in man1,2, and it has been reported that pigs may harbour the virus of swine influenza for long periods3,4. Thus pigs might serve as reservoirs for influenza viruses infectious for man.
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GULRAJANI, T., BEVERIDGE, W. Infectious Pneumonia of Pigs. Nature 167, 856–857 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/167856b0
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