A strain of bird flu that has jumped from animals to people in the United States could find its way to Europe, EU scientists have warned in a new report. EU-US trade of “raw milk” products and wild ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

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This can lead to the creation of a new variant that’s dangerous to humans. That’s what happened in 2009, when a novel swine-origin flu strain spread to people around the world.

The 2009 swine flu pandemic, for example, resulted from a zoonotic transmission from hogs to humans. About 25% of the human population was infected with the new variant and more than a half ...

The pediatric death toll from the flu this season is the highest it’s been since the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

It was actually three viruses that mixed their gene segments or their deck of cards, an avian flu, a swine flu and a human flu. And that’s what led to the 2009 H1n1 pandemic.” ...

Pigs can host both bird and human flu viruses, which can make them a dangerous "mixing bowl." Flu season can also heighten the risk of mutations and eventual human transmission of H5N1.