The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

Both swine and avian influenza are strains of influenza A. Just as swine flu strains tend to infect pigs, avian flu strains ...

The flu, a contagious respiratory illness, can affect anyone, and it's essential to take steps to protect yourself and those around you. Here's a user-friendly guide on how to reduce your risk of ...

Swine flu is already widespread on pig farms, affecting around half of UK production pigs. While human cases remain rare, the 2009 pandemic showed how easily swine-origin viruses can jump to people ...

The 2024-25 flu season, the worst the U.S. has experienced in well over a decade, is finally behind us, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating that between 47 million and 82 ...

Amidst an ongoing outbreak of a deadly bird flu virus in livestock, the US Department of Agriculture is doing more to prevent ...

The flu virus is lingering in Arizona and the season has been vicious. Pediatric flu deaths reached the highest level in recent history.

The Department of Agriculture has announced the country’s first mass vaccination of poultry to prevent local birds from contracting avian flu. This follows several warnings from the National Society ...

A new study in Genome Biology and Evolution finds that the African Swine Fever virus, currently circulating in Europe, is not the result of a recent introduction. Instead, the virus has been ...