The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu also causes flu in pigs. You cannot get this flu from eating pork, bacon, sausages, or any ...

H1N1 influenza A spread rapidly with alarming, early results. Health care professionals armed with a historical perspective and the latest treatment guidelines are best equipped to respond.

Medical practitioners report a rise in severe flu cases, including swine flu (H1N1), with an increasing need to prescribe specific antiviral medications. Over the past two years, the demand for ...

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

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. However, a new case in a British Columbia ...

Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010, and have been implicated as the source of ... a professor of veterinary population medicine at the University of Minnesota who has ...

H5N1 avian flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in hogs in the ...

A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.

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Here are some tips on prevention of the H1N1 virus: Contrary to many people’s belief, research shows there is no relationship between swine flu and pigs. Pigs are not even vectors of this disease.

Food Theft' Among Seabirds Could Be Transmission Point for Deadly Avian Flu Sep. 16, 2024 — If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue ...