She noted that since the late 1990s, when this current strain of bird flu originated in China’s Guangdong province, the ...

A Canadian teenager infected with bird flu — that country’s first case involving a locally acquired infection — is in critical condition and experiencing difficulty breathing, health officials said ...

Farmworkers in close contact with infected animals should be tested even if they show no symptoms, according to new guidance ...

Pigs were the ... the agency said. The swine case originated with wild birds and not from a poultry or dairy farm, said a USDA spokesperson. Wild bird migration has carried bird flu to poultry ...

CHICAGO, Illinois - 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.

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 ...

Bird flu has infected three more people from Washington state after they were exposed to poultry that tested positive for the ...

In fact, the 2009 swine flu pandemic is believed to have been sparked by a virus that mutated in pigs in Mexico before it jumped to people. Health officials also reported recently that a second ...

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 ...

The infected pig (not pictured) was from a backyard farming operation that had a "mix of poultry and livestock," the press release stated. "There can be several different kinds of flu in swine at ...