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 ...

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine and raises concerns ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...

The US Department of Agriculture reported on Wednesday detection of the H5N1 bird flu virus in a pig from ... successfully infected domestic swine, pig-to-pig transmission, reassortment with ...

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.

The United States has detected its first case of H5N1 bird flu in a pig, a worrying sign for scientists who have warned the virus' movement to swine could be a bellwether for a potential pandemic.

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 ...