The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu also causes flu in pigs. You cannot get this flu from eating pork, bacon, sausages, or any ...
Nuzzo said there are other hypotheses — which she stressed are just hypotheses — including one that posits people who were ...
The process is thought to have produced the 2009 H1N1 swine flu from a mix of U.S. and European strains of pig flu virus, ...
CHICAGO >> H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the ...
A teenager has been hospitalised with bird flu in Canada, in the first suspected case to be found in the country.Officials ...
"There can be several different kinds of flu in swine at any given time, and they can exchange genetic material, creating new ...
Pigs can become coinfected with bird and human viruses, allowing genes to swap to form a new, more dangerous virus that can ...
NEW YORK -- A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It's ...
A Canadian teen who is in critical condition after contracting H5N1 bird flu was infected with a version of the virus that is different from the one circulating in U.S. cattle.
Public health experts are concerned that the first detection of H5N1 bird flu in a pig could mean the next step in ...
For the first time, a bird flu infection has been detected in a pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is reporting ...