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Can Keeping Chickens, Ducks, and Geese Together with Pigs Lead to Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza?

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Poultry should not be kept together with pigs, because influenza viruses from poultry can infect pigs, and human influenza viruses can also infect pigs. Since influenza viruses have 8 different nucleic acid segments, when these two different virus particles infect a single cell together, their nucleic acid segments undergo reassortment and rearrangement to produce new types of influenza virus particles. These new influenza virus particles can often cause major epidemics in humans, resulting in great harm. In addition, chickens should not be kept together with waterfowl such as ducks and geese, because

Poultry should not be kept together with pigs, because influenza viruses from poultry can infect pigs, and human influenza viruses can also infect pigs. Since influenza viruses have 8 different nucleic acid segments, when these two different virus particles infect a single cell together, their nucleic acid segments undergo reassortment and rearrangement to produce new types of influenza virus particles. These new influenza virus particles can often cause major epidemics in humans, resulting in great harm.

In addition, chickens should not be kept together with waterfowl such as ducks and geese, because the carriage rate of various subtypes of influenza virus among waterfowl is very high, and some show no clinical symptoms at all. After the virus in their feces infects chickens, it can cause the occurrence and spread of avian influenza, leading to severe economic losses.

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