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

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center has announced new precautions to protect its avian ...

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in poultry and dairy cows in the United States, a case of H5N1 has now been confirmed for the first time in a pig.

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

The operation, dubbed Cold Meat 2, launched last week. It tracked 18,000 head of cattle raised in 100 square miles (260 ...

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 ...

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

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

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...

Some antiviral drugs demonstrate high effectiveness against bovine H5N1. A recent study published in Nature reports that a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus, isolated from the eye of ...