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Genomics charts a deadly bacterium’s leap from pigs to humans

Samples collected over several decades help scientists to trace the path taken by Streptococcus suis.
Workers sprinkle disinfection powder on spoiled pork

Pork is sprinkled with disinfectant in Beijing in 2005, when a pig-borne disease made scores of people in China ill. Credit: China Photos/Getty

A genomic analysis has narrowed down where and when a deadly bacterium jumped from pigs to humans: in Europe in the 1960s or 1970s.

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Nature 595, 334 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01845-8

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