Animal health companies are developing vaccines that improve the breadth and effectiveness of protection against avian ...

H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for the first time, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. The USDA and Oregon veterinary officials are investigating bird ...

“People also may catch bird flu through contact with wild birds or another type of animal. Bird flu rarely has spread from person to person.” That said, there have been human cases in six ...

At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak ... the discovery has raised new alarm bells thanks to pigs’ role as a kind of mixing pot for influenza viruses, potentially leading ...

A bird flu virus has jumped one ... then it's much more of a problem," Florian Krammer, a flu virologist at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine in New York, told STAT News.

De St. Maurice said it was this kind of work ... strains of H5N1 bird flu circulating in California. The form circulating in dairy cows is known by scientists as B3.13. A new wild bird version ...

A PIG IN THE STATE OF OREGON, NOT HERE, BUT IN OREGON, HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH BIRD FLU. EXPERTS SAY IT’S AN ALARMING NEW DEVELOPMENT ... A DIFFERENT TYPE OF BIRD FLU. SO THE USDA SAYS THAT ...

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu NEW YORK -- A pig at an Oregon farm ... This version of bird flu — known as Type A H5N1 — has been spreading widely in the U.S. among wild ...

NEW YORK (AP ... a Penn State researcher who studies flu viruses in animals. This version of bird flu — known as Type A H5N1 — has been spreading widely in the U.S. among wild birds ...