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.

The swine flu virus we are discussing here is the 2009 H1N1 type A influenza, a human disease. It’s a zoonotic disease which originally was transmitted from pigs to humans and now spreads from ...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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.