Less than a month after reporting its first human case of bird flu, California has confirmed that 16 people have now been ...

In mid March 2009, an unknown virus began spreading in Mexico, and by late April, cases of the H1N1 virus — commonly called the Swine Flu — had been confirmed in the U.S., Canada, Spain and ...

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 ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

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 ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a viral infection spread from bird to bird. The most common kind is the H5N1 strain. While swine flu isn't as scary as it seemed a few years ago, it's still ...

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 ...

The new flu strain is similar to the swine flu that spread globally in 2009 A new strain of flu that has the potential to become a pandemic has been identified in China by scientists. It emerged ...

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 ...

Officials are calling it influenza A(H1N2)v rather than swine flu. It is a type of flu - like the winter illness many people get vaccinated against - but it is a bit different. It is almost ...

Swine flu, known as pandemic influenza or swine influenza, is an influenza virus that makes individuals ill. It is a respiratory disease caused by the H1N1 virus. It was first detected in the ...