Researchers have identified new roles for a protein long known to protect against severe flu infection -- among them, raising the minimum number of viral particles needed to cause sickness.

So far there’s been only one reported human case of bird flu in Texas this year in April and 46 total in the U.S., according ...

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

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A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

"There is no real way to distinguish COVID-19 from influenza based on clinical symptoms because they overlap so much," he said. Common COVID and flu symptoms include sore throat, fever, fatigue ...

USDA's National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed Tuesday that one of the farm's five pigs was infected with H5N1, the first detection of H5N1 in swine in the United States. The farm has ...

CHICAGO — Bird flu was confirmed in a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza was discovered for the first time in swine in the US, the US Department of Agriculture said in a Wednesday statement. H5N1 virus also detected in poultry at backyard ...