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

Stock image of a man with the flu. Stock image of a man with the flu ... including: one influenza A(H1N1) virus, one influenza A(H3N2) virus, and one influenza B/Victoria lineage virus," the ...

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 ...

Annual flu vaccines help protect us against strains of H1N1 viruses ... may not have originated in Spain Image: picture alliance / AP Photo Type C influenza viruses can infect humans and other ...

Study: Potential pandemic risk of circulating swine H1N2 influenza viruses. Image Credit: Fahroni / Shutterstock.com Influenza viruses possess the ability to evolve specific traits, which ...

Image “We have a total bias for snouts ... They can be infected by swine, bird and human flu viruses simultaneously, serving as mixing vessels in which different strains can reshuffle their ...

Officially there is no evidence of human transmission of the new swine flu virus. But it's hard to see an alternative explanation at the moment. Image: The UK Health Security Agency said it is ...

The H1N1 swine flu virus appeared in the U.S. in April 2009 and never went away. After sweeping the globe, U.S. H1N1 swine flu cases surged as schools opened in the fall. What is H1N1 swine flu?

Occasional so-called "spillovers" of H1N1 ... flu have been spotted throughout the world in people who interacted with infected pigs. However, it is unclear how the patient in this case caught the ...

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 ...