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

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

A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in ...

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 U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was the first confirmed case of ...