H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

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 remain at the centre of scientists’ nightmare scenario because commercial swine carry lots of human flu viruses. Their cells share enough features with ours that flu viruses can use some of ...

The spectre of African Swine Fever (ASF) rose its head in Sarawak recently when one out of 17 samples of canned pork luncheon meat imported from China was found to contain the ASF DNA. While the ...

A Canadian teenager has been hospitalized with bird flu, the first human case of H5N1 in the current ... [+] outbreak detected in the country. A teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized ...

The new guidance comes after new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn’t report ...

A teenager in British Columbia, Canada, has contracted the H5 strain of bird flu, marking the country's first confirmed human case. Health officials are investigating the source of the infection ...

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced that a ...