The World Health Organization voiced alarm at the growing spread of H5N1 bird flu to new species, including humans, who face an ‘extraordinarily high’ mortality rate. Hong Kong should test for ...

LOS ANGELES -- H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed in a pig in the United States for the first time, said the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday. The Oregon Department of Agriculture ...

The first detection of H5N1 bird flu in US swine has been reported on an Oregon backyard farm, raising concerns about potential human infection. The USDA assures low public health risk and no ...

(CNN) — H5N1 bird flu has been identified in a pig in the United States for the first time, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. The USDA and Oregon veterinary officials are ...

A pig tested positive for the H5N1 bird flu for the first time in the US, government officials said, a feared development that could help the virus further evolve and put humans at risk.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed the first U.S. case of H5N1 avian influenza in a pig on a small, backyard farm in Oregon. The discovery is a significant development in the ongoing ...

The emergence of a new clade of Avian Influenza H5N1 (2.3.4.4b) in late 2020 has led to a swift and widespread global outbreak, carried by migratory birds. Since then, the highly contagious clade ...

Blood tests of several people who were in contact with a patient in Missouri who caught H5N1 bird flu without any known exposure to infected animals reveal that at least one of them — a person ...

To find out, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted antibody screening on people exposed to that patient to test for a immune response consistent with a past H5N1 infection.

As H5N1 bird flu continues to spread wildly among California dairy herds and farmworkers, federal health officials on Thursday offered some relatively good news about Missouri: The wily avian ...