H5N1 avian influenza, more commonly known as bird flu, has infected more than 100 million birds in the U.S. and almost 500 ...

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

Nuzzo said there are other hypotheses — which she stressed are just hypotheses — including one that posits people who were ...

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.

Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection—among them, raising ...

There are other types of flu that primarily infect animals, like bird flu and now swine flu. The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu ...

Hope is on the horizon for needle-phobic patients as Griffith University researchers have created a new influenza vaccine ...

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It’s the first ...

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in American dairy herds and poultry flocks, Canadian officials have announced ...

African swine fever outbreak in Kottiyoor prompts culling of infected pigs and strict measures to prevent further spread.