Following a CDC study showing bird flu exposure among dairy workers, health officials recommend increased testing and preventative measures for farmworkers, even if they show no symptoms, to prevent ...

HAHAHA. THERE YO Dr. Todd Ellerin, chief of infectious diseases at South Shore Health, answers questions about the recent infection of a pig with bird flu.

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 ...

A bird flu virus has jumped one species closer to a human outbreak. The H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in Oregon, the first instance of a swine infection in the US, officials announced on ...

AP One of 43 monkeys bred for medical research that escaped a compound in the US state of South Carolina has been recovered ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...

Internal emails reveal Michigan health officials suspected that owners may have inadvertently spread bird flu to their household cats, raising new concerns about transmission patterns of the virus.

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020.

It’s been more than six months since the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that dairy cows in Texas and Kansas had, for the first time, tested positive for a kind of avian flu ...

H5N1 bird flu has been a top public health concern since ... worldwide since 2020 and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals in South America. As of Wednesday, approximately 3.64 million birds ...

This strain of bird flu has killed tens of millions of birds worldwide since 2020 and more than 40,000 sea lions and seals in South America. World Health Organization chief scientist Jeremy Farrar has ...

A pig has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu in a backyard farm in Oregon. Pigs can host both bird and human flu viruses, which can make them a dangerous "mixing bowl." Flu season can also heighten ...