During the COVID-19 pandemic, global influenza cases dropped dramatically due to lockdowns and travel restrictions. However, ...

The CDC underscored the risks of such viral reassortment, noting that pigs, which can be infected by both human and bird flu ...

The process is thought to have produced the 2009 H1N1 swine flu from a mix of U.S. and European strains of pig flu virus, ...

Federal health authorities on Thursday broadened their response to the H5N1 avian flu outbreak based on new data suggesting ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

Some previous flu infections in pigs have allowed influenza viruses to change rapidly and develop new capabilities. The 2009 ...

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in ...

But in the months since the outbreak was first detected, the spread of the virus in cows has not been contained, with ...

A pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current ...

For the first time, a bird flu infection has been detected in a pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting ...

Pigs can be infected with multiple types of flu, and the animals can play a role in making bird viruses better adapted to ...