There have been six major influenza epidemics in the last 140 years, with the 1918 flu pandemic being the most severe; this is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of 50–100 million ...

CHICAGO >> H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the ...

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 ...

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu for the first time, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S.

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 ...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) -H5N1 bird flu was detected in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the ...

A pig at an Oregon farm was found to have bird flu, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine and raises concerns ...

Bird flu was detected in a pig at a backyard farm in Oregon. It’s the first time the virus has been detected in U.S. swine. Finding bird flu in a pig raises worries that the virus could become a ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -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.

The latest finding of the virus in pigs is something experts have warned over for months. Pigs were the source of the H1N1 pandemic – also known as ‘swine flu’ – and have been implicated as the source ...