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WASHINGTON (AP) -- A form of ebola virus has been detected in pigs for the first time, raising concerns it could mutate and threaten humans, scientists report....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists say the swine flu virus may have jumped from pigs to people as early as last August.

That's several months before it was reported in Mexico in April....

TORONTO (MedPage Today) -- The novel H1N1 flu virus may have been propagating in pigs for years without being detected, according to researchers who studied the genetic sequences of more than 70 samples isolated from patients in Mexico and the U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Genes included in the new swine flu have been circulating undetected in pigs for at least a decade, according to researchers who have sequenced the genomes of more than 50 samples of the virus....

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Now that the swine flu virus has passed from a farmworker to pigs, could it jump back to people?

The question is important, because crossing species again could make it more deadly....

While it's true that pigs are a potent reservoir for potentially virulent flu strains, there's no telling where or in which species the current H1N1 swine flu originated

From Egypt's order that all 300,000 pigs in the country be slaughtered to travel bans and putting the kibosh on kissing, the world is taking drastic - and some say debatable - measures to combat swine flu....

CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt began slaughtering the roughly 300,000 pigs in the country Wednesday as a precautionary measure against the spread of swine flu even though no cases have been reported here yet, the Health Ministry said....