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 ...

CSIR-Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500007 (AP), India. The authors are grateful to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-CCMB), India, for ...

Influenza A viruses come in many varieties. Four subtypes commonly affect humans, Dr. Lowen said — you may have heard of H1N1, for example. But many more influenza A viruses have been identified ...

Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM State Epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Kemble said Thursday that the state Department of Health is not yet able to determine whether the specimen collected last week ...

A case of H5N1 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. Pigs represent a ...

The USDA said there is no risk to the nation's pork supply from the Oregon case. The risk to the public from bird flu remains low.