Throughout human history, zoonotic diseases, illnesses that jump from animals to humans, have shaped civilizations, triggered ...

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

A virus that evolves too fast Flu viruses in pigs are especially tough to control. The main subtypes found in swine are H1N1, H1N2, and H3N2. Among these, H1 viruses are the most common and 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 ...

Swine Flu Virus Outbreak In India: India is witnessing a sudden surge in highly infectious swine flu (H1N1) cases. According to the latest government data, the country has reported a total of ...

Influenza virologists around the world had for years been using freezers to store influenza virus strains, including some that had gone extinct in the wild. Fears of a new H1N1 swine flu pandemic ...

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 ...

The H1N1 virus—known as swine flu—is one type of influenza A virus. Influenza A(H1N1) viruses still exist today. Scientists call it the A (H1N1)pdm09 virus. Influenza type A and type B viruses cause ...

The A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses, adapted from H1N1, caused the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, which killed 20-50 million people. The variant has been genetically traced to flu outbreaks in swine ...

a flu virus infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, at least 50 million of whom died. Even some recent seasonal flus have killed more people than swine flu did. With swine flu ...

The detected virus belongs to a known subtype of influenza A that regularly infects pigs, called H1N2, but it's a newly identified strain. Sporadically, swine flu viruses like H1N2 can jump into ...