Pigs remain at the centre of scientists’ nightmare scenario because commercial swine carry lots of human flu viruses. Their ...

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The infected pig was from a backyard farming operation that ...

There are other types of flu that primarily infect animals, like bird flu and now swine flu. The real name for swine flu is H1N1 flu. It is called swine flu because a virus that causes this flu ...

In 2009, this disease infected millions of people, now it could be back. This is the Swine Flu. Although we managed to largely avoid it over 10 years ago, there's now a new strain of the virus. And ...

Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu in poultry and dairy cows in the United States, a case of H5N1 has now been confirmed for the first time in a pig.

In fact, the 2009 swine flu pandemic is believed to have been sparked by a virus that mutated in pigs in Mexico before it jumped to people. Health officials also reported recently that a second ...

H1N1 influenza A spread rapidly with alarming, early results. Health care professionals armed with a historical perspective and the latest treatment guidelines are best equipped to respond.

All four flu pandemics — in 1918, 1957 and 1968 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — were caused by Type A viruses. Influenza B viruses, however, only circulate in humans. They are divided ...

It’s something the world has seen before. The swine flu pandemic of 2009 was a “quadruple-reassortant virus” made up of swine, avian and human flu genes. Over 60 million people got sick ...

Pigs were the source of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic — also known as swine flu— and are capable of harboring different types of flu viruses. -- Kristine de Leon covers consumer health, retail ...

With flu season quickly approaching here in the U.S., a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed new information on this year’s flu vaccine. Each year ...

The public health risk of viruses evolving in pigs is remembered by the medical community and policymakers alike following the 2009 H1N1 influenza virus outbreak, colloquially known as swine flu.