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

Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed from Humans to Swine Nearly 400 Times Since 2009 July 27, 2023 — A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows ...

Influenza A/H1N1 can infect both humans and animals, including birds and pigs, and is one of several strains related to ...

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 ...

Emily St. John Mandel’s 'Station Eleven' imagined a pandemic long before COVID-19 and it feels even more powerful in today’s ...

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

The record was set during the H1N1 swine flu pandemic in 2009. For the week ending Dec. 9, there were 1,800 lab-confirmed influenza cases in the province, surpassing the previous record of 1,778 ...

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

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains tend to infect birds. But the potential for influenza A viruses that ...