USask researchers recently published a paper in Scientific Reports that identified a promising alternative for controlling infectious diseases such as swine dysentery. Porcine β-defensin 5, or ...

Pigs, swine, hogs, boars. Wild, feral, invasive, non-native. Whatever words you use, these tusked omnivores are more widespread in the United States than ever before. Piglets sleep on their mother ...

WASHINGTON, April 8, 2016 – The Food and Drug Administration is moving to withdraw approval for the swine drug carbodox, citing the potential cancer risk to consumers. The drug, manufactured by ...

An explosion of wild pigs in the U.S. could be exposing people to dangerous parasites, a new study says. The wild pig, Sus scrofa, was first introduced to the U.S. from Europe as livestock in the ...

Everybody wants to find a diamond in the rough, but no one wants their pig to develop diamond skin disease—an infection that can cause pain and discomfort and may lead to death if left untreated.

A new $500,000 grant will help a Kansas State University researcher look for ways to control one of the most important viral agents in pigs: porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus.

Right now, a pig disease called African swine fever is moving across the world. It has caused huge alarm in China and across Europe; more than 300,000 pigs have died of the disease or been culled ...

And yet though it, too — like China today — had in place only a flawed system for monitoring and reporting animal diseases, African swine fever took about a decade to reach eastern Siberia ...

Since 2021, swine fever, which is not deadly to humans, has been reported in nearly 50 countries and caused about 1.3 million pig deaths, WOAH said in a regular report last week.

The pig disease — a highly contagious and untreatable outbreak that is not fatal to humans but can be spread by us — has now extended swiftly out of China.

Swine models of cardiovascular disease are also frequently used to emulate scenarios of myocardial infarction and heart failure. These models are used for various purposes, including ...