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 ...

In 2009, H1N1 caused the first global flu pandemic in 40 years, with the first infections detected in California. More than 12,000 people died around the US, and nearly 61,000 people were infected.

A pig in Oregon has tested positive for H5N1 bird flu for the first time, according to a Wednesday announcement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Doctors weigh in on potential concerns.

H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for the ... The 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic is believed to have been sparked by a virus that mutated in pigs in Mexico before it jumped ...

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.

In two recent interviews on Fox News, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. downplayed concerns about H5N1 avian influenza in the U.S., raising alarm among public health and infectious disease ...

That’s when a human flu A virus — H3N2 or H1N1 — could swap genes with H5N1, ... H5N1 is an influenza A virus, as are the H3N2 and H1N1 viruses that circulate every winter.

In early December 2024, a group of researchers published an article in the journal Science, entitled "A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors".

When, where and how the H5N1 bird flu virus may evolve and its capacity to spark a pandemic is hard to predict — in part, some researchers say, because of federal restrictions on gain-of ...

If H5N9 gains a foothold in humans, people may possibly have less immunity to the virus than they do to H5N1. "The seasonal, human H1N1 virus has an NA protein that is related, but different from ...

Experts believe this phenomenon triggered the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. That virus is estimated to have infected as much as one-fifth of the world’s population and killed around 284,000 people.

Cases of H5N1 bird flu in U.S. dairy and poultry workers have largely been mild. But a new case in a British Columbia teenager has experts worried.