The new strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus, discovered by a dairy worker on a farm in Texas, is said to be deadly for ...

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 flu.

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 ...

Pigs can be infected with human and avian flu, upping chances for the virus to evolve and become more infectious ...

HPAI cases have been reported in poultry and wild birds across Asia from Israel to Japan and South Korea. South Korea has ...

First case of H5N1 virus detected in pig in U.S., raising concerns for public health officials. Genetic analysis underway, but risk to public remains low.

Oregon state and federal officials confirmed Wednesday that H5N1 bird flu was found in a pig living in Crook County — the ...

Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

CHICAGO >> H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the ...

And there are still challenges: Last spring, the southwest flock was devastated by highly pathogenic avian influenza. Twenty-one condors died, a loss Hauck estimates set back the flock’s recovery by ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is vigilantly monitoring an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus that has ...