Antibodies to the influenza D virus, a type first isolated from diseased pigs with respiratory disease in 2011, have been detected in horses.

Although the new flu virus was first found in pigs, scientists subsequently discovered it was more common in cattle.

South Dakota State University (SDSU) doctoral student Chithra Sreenivasan, working with the Minnesota Poultry Testing Lab, found no evidence of the new influenza strain in poultry.

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