Canadian officials have announced that a teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.
H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020.
The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird flu. Fortunately, we haven't seen any sustained spread between humans ...
H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020.
At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central Oregon. While the infection appears limited to one farm so far, the discovery has raised new alarm ...