The illness is originally known to affect pigs. It is known to have spread ... Once the patient is tested positive for swine flu, treatment needs to be initiated immediately.

Scientists have been worried that H5N1 might spread to pigs, which are considered a “mixing bowl” species for flu viruses because they carry the same kind of receptors on cells in their lungs as ...

CHICAGO — Bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.

Chicago | Reuters—H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday.

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 2009 H1N1 pandemic, though "mild by pandemic standards," involved a swine flu, Siegel noted. Added the doctor, "Continued spread in the pig population would concern me." Dr. Benjamin Anderson ...

when the swine flu pandemic spread, it is believed to have been sparked by a virus that mutated in pigs in Mexico before it ...

Although the pig did not show symptoms of infection, all 5 swine on the farm were tested for H5N1 because of the presence of the virus in other animals on the farm. HealthDay News — Amid an ongoing ...

A case of H5N1 bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. Pigs represent a ...

but we also know that the strain of influenza virus that entered pigs in 1918 then circulated in them for over 90 years before combining with other viruses to cause the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

For instance, the 1918 influenza virus that sparked the Spanish flu pandemic circulated in pigs for nearly a century before combining with other viruses to cause the 2009 swine flu pandemic.