Patchy pig monitoring may hide flu threat. Public-health experts are warning that a lack of surveillance may be allowing the 2009 pandemic H1N1 flu virus to go undetected in pigs. This raises the risk that the virus could circulate freely between humans and pigs, making it more likely to reassort into a deadlier strain, they say. [News Source]

Hog farmers wary of reporting new flu. It will be difficult to boost surveillance of hogs for the new pandemic strain of H1N1 flu unless farmers are confident they won't be penalized if the disease is found in their barns, an official with the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Tuesday. [News Source]