Bird flu infections have been rare among people, but the pathogen is evolving, which has scientists worried about a possible ...

Any evidence of a bird virus jumping readily into mammals is a worry, as it could indicate that mutations that allow for ...

Avian flu strains tend to only affect birds, but the current outbreak has spread to cattle and – in rare cases – people. The ...

H5N1 bird flu has now crossed into U.S. dairy cattle for the first time, and alarmingly, it did so through just one spillover ...

As the poultry industry is being hit with a Bird Flu outbreak, America’s pork producers are sounding the alarm about preventing an African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreak. “It has been discovered in the ...

Texas health and wildlife officials have detected avian flu in at least four mammal species across six counties on the High Plains.

Hence it became known as “Spanish flu.” By June influenza reached from Algeria to New Zealand. Still, a 1927 study concluded, “In many parts of the world the first wave either was so faint ...

The UK reports its first-ever case of reverse zoonosis—human flu infecting a pig—raising alarms about factory farming public ...

Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs ... the first major outbreak of H5 family avian flu occurred in North America in 2014-2015. This 2014 outbreak was caused by the H5N8 strain, a ...