The new strain of H5N1 avian influenza virus, discovered by a dairy worker on a farm in Texas, is said to be deadly for ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

The United States Department of Agriculture last week reported that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was infected with bird ...

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is introducing mandatory bulk tank testing in a bid to contain the spread of the H5N1 ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, answers questions about the recent infection of a pig ...

Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

A Texas case of H5N1 in a dairy worker revealed a virus capable of fatal transmission in ferrets, raising concerns about its ...

It’s been detected in birds on every continent except Australia, seals in South America, foxes in Canada, as well as poultry, ...

Bird flu appears to be rising in the U.S., but only among people exposed to infected animals — namely, cows and poultry.Since ...

It's the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine and raises concerns about bird flu's potential to become a ...

And there are still challenges: Last spring, the southwest flock was devastated by highly pathogenic avian influenza. Twenty-one condors died, a loss Hauck estimates set back the flock’s recovery by ...