It's called swine flu because in the past, the people who caught it had direct contact with pigs. That changed several years ago, when a new virus emerged that spread among people who hadn't been ...

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

An epidemiologist makes the case that a rush of research to stop a swine flu outbreak led to an accidental lab release of an ...

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 ...

Swine flu is still active in South Africa every winter, and very dangerous for the elderly, children, and people with HIV.

All four flu pandemics — in 1918, 1957 and 1968 and the swine flu pandemic of 2009 — were caused by Type A viruses. Influenza B viruses, however, only circulate in humans. They are divided ...

The 2009 swine flu outbreak is thought to have been the result of reassortment between avian, swine and human influenza viruses. “We already know that reassortment sometimes is really ...

The infections include Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Influenza A, better known as swine flu, and influenza B types.

In 2023, the first two U.S. cases of swine flu in humans were linked to infected pigs at county fairs in Michigan, according to the CDC. Scientists often grow concerned when viruses jump from ...

A major new UK study warns that evolving swine flu viruses in Europe could pose a serious future pandemic threat if left ...