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 ...

Medical practitioners report a rise in severe flu cases, including swine flu (H1N1), with an increasing need to prescribe specific antiviral medications. Over the past two years, the demand for ...

The swine flu virus we are discussing here is the 2009 H1N1 type A influenza, a human disease. It’s a zoonotic disease which originally was transmitted from pigs to humans and now spreads from ...

Ahmedabad: According to recent data released by the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), India has witnessed its highest number of swine flu (H1N1) cases in five years, with Gujarat ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon was the first confirmed case of ...

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu. It's the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine and raises ...

Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010 ... at the University of Minnesota who has researched flu viruses in swine. "People need to start increasing their plans to deal ...

Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010 ... the farm were culled to prevent the spread of the virus and enable additional testing of the swine, the USDA said. Tests are still ...

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 ...

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 on Wednesday.