The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it's ...

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A new study revealed more farmworkers had signs of infection, even though they reportedly did not display symptoms of illness.

The CDC study provides the largest window to date into how the bird virus first detected in March in dairy cows may be ...

H5N1 influenza has now been detected in pigs. This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly ...

If a pig infected with human flu got infected with the H5N1 bird flu, a new virus could emerge with parts of both. That’d be ...

Swine can act as so-called “mixing vessels” for human and bird flus, giving avian viruses an opportunity to adapt for spreading in people.

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 ...

The recent detection on an Oregon farm raises the risk of the influenza virus acquiring mutations that lead to a pandemic ...

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 ...

It's the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine and raises concerns about bird flu's potential to become a ...

A 51-year-old man from Binh Dinh Province died after contracting the A/H1N1 swine flu virus, experiencing complications including septic shock and Cushing's syndrome. The patient was admitted to the ...