As the number of human bird flu cases have continued to rise across the US, H5N1 infections have sparked near fears about the ...

As H5N1 bird flu spreads among California dairy herds and southward-migrating birds, health officials announced Friday six ...

CHICAGO, Illinois: The U.S. Department of Agriculture says that a pig on a backyard farm in Oregon is the first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu in swine in the ... The USDA stated that the Oregon case ...

The US Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced recently that the agency is planning to enhance testing and monitoring for H5N1, building on ...

The first confirmed case of H5N1 avian influenza in a U.S. pig has been reported by the USDA. The infected pig, part of a backyard farm with mixed livestock, showed no illness but tested positive.

Officials said there was little risk to public health because the H5N1 bird flu is unlikely to spread between humans. Washington public health officials were already investigating human cases of ...

Pigs were the source of the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009-2010, and have been implicated as the source of others, said Richard Webby, a St. Jude Children's Research Hospital virologist who studies flu ...

CHICAGO, Illinois - 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.

H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in a pig in the United States for the first time, said the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). The farm has been quarantined to prevent further spread of the ...