Is it the same as swine flu? Swine flu is usually caused by three subtypes – H1N1, H1N2 and H3N2. They occasionally infect humans, usually after direct or indirect exposure to pigs or ...

Canadian officials have announced that a teenager in British Columbia has been hospitalized in critical condition with what is believed to be bird flu.

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

The first human case of a new strain of swine flu has been detected in the UK, and health officials are trying to determine the virus's origin. On Monday, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA ...

A pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current ...

Pigs remain at the centre of scientists’ nightmare scenario because commercial swine carry lots of human flu viruses. Their cells share enough features with ours that flu viruses can use some of ...

Human infections with swine flu viruses do occur - there have been 50 cases of A(H1N2)v reported globally in the past 20 years. There was a case reported in the United States in August.

The new flu strain is similar to the swine flu that spread globally in 2009 ... It emerged recently and is carried by pigs, but can infect humans, they say. The researchers are concerned that ...

The swine flu alert in Mexico rose to a level four this week, meaning that it is spreading human-to-human and shows a significant increase in the risk of becoming a pandemic. Schools are closed ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a viral infection spread from bird to bird. The most common kind is the H5N1 strain. While swine flu isn't as scary as it seemed a few years ago, it's still ...

It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine. RELATED: 1st human death of bird flu strain H5N2 confirmed, WHO says The farm was put under quarantine and all five pigs were ...