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

New Two-Step Flu Vaccine Strategy Shows Promise in Pig Model Aug. 9, 2024 — A new, two-step flu vaccination strategy that pairs intramuscular injection of a viral vectored flu vaccine with nasal ...

Last week, the Agriculture Department said a pig at an Oregon farm was confirmed to have bird flu, the first time the virus ...

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

Food Theft' Among Seabirds Could Be Transmission Point for Deadly Avian Flu Sep. 16, 2024 — If seabirds can catch avian flu by stealing food from infectious birds, it gives scientists a clue ...

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 pig infected with bird flu in Oregon has raised concerns about the virus’s potential to threaten humans, but the current ...

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 ...