“…Varying rates of mortality of swine due to IAV infections were reported from around the world ranging from 0.5% to 30% [138,206,213,218,221,273,296,327]. This wide difference in mortality rate could be due to novel virus strains emerged through reassortments within the swine [273,315,327] or inter-species transmission, e.g., avian to swine transmission, resulting into severe disease outbreaks [27,80,119,133].…”