Almost from the beginning of the spread of H5N1 bird flu among farms and ranches in the U.S. earlier this year, experts and ...

New CDC research suggests that a small but significant percentage of dairy farmers working near infected cows have recently ...

OPINION: Avian flu, once limited to birds, is adapting to infect mammals, raising concerns about a new pandemic risk. With ...

If the influenza virus infecting cattle workers starts a pandemic, help in the form of a vaccine is months away ...

The detection of H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) in a pig on an Oregon farm has again raised concerns specifically among ...

That pandemic wasn’t as deadly as scientists initially feared ... If a pig that already carried human flu got infected with ...

But in the months since the outbreak was first detected, the spread of the virus in cows has not been contained, with ...

The health agency now urges proactive testing and treatment for the virus among any workers who were exposed to 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 ...

Influenza viruses have several features that make them well suited for this: for one, they constantly mutate in a process ...

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

Discovery of Avian Influenza in a New Mammalian Host On October 31 ... A similar reassortment event in pigs is believed to ...