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 U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was the first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu in swine in the country ...

The USDA is set to begin testing bulk raw milk for bird flu contamination in an effort to control the rapid spread of the virus. In addition to more ...

USDA will begin bulk testing milk supplies starting in states where dairy cattle tested positive last spring for the H5N1 bird flu virus. Bird flu is an increasing concern for USDA, amid H5N1 infectio ...

It’s believed that the disease spread because the livestock and poultry shared the same water supply, housing and equipment.

Bird flu has been detected in a U.S. pig for the first time, raising concerns among healthcare experts about avian influenza’s potential to cross species boundaries and impact human health.

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 ...

Officials said there was little risk to public health because the H5N1 bird flu is unlikely to ... Meanwhile, a backyard pig ...

H5 viruses are of bird origin; they are not human viruses. H5N1 bird flu has been discovered in a pig in Oregon, a ...

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

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