If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for ... which are considered “mixing bowl” species for flu ...

A bird flu virus has jumped one species closer to a human outbreak ... such as a tweak that makes it attach to more ...

When multiple viruses infect the same cell and replicate, they can swap these segments ... Could such reassortment occur if a ...

in cow’s udders), a different shape is used on cells in the human airway. Bird flu viruses and human flu viruses are trying ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

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

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird ...

Bird flu appears to be rising in the U.S., but only among people exposed to infected animals — namely, cows and poultry.Since ...

Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, answers questions about the recent infection of a pig ...