amplifying concerns about the virus’s potential for cross-species transmission. Discovery of Avian Influenza in a New Mammalian Host On October 31, 2024, health officials confirmed that a pig on ...

“The purpose of these actions is to keep workers safe, to limit the transmission of H5 to humans and to reduce the possibility of the virus changing,” Shah said. The new CDC study provides the ...

then it'll start to have a negative impact on the oxygen transmission that the lungs are supposed to get. And then people will start talking about shortness of breath." As the virus invades ...

Internal emails reveal Michigan health officials suspected that owners may have inadvertently spread bird flu to their household cats, raising new concerns about transmission patterns of the virus.

Cold and flu season is here, meaning our chances of getting sick goes up. Experts recommend that all kids six months and up get a flu vaccine. However, they said the COVID-19 vaccine is only a ...

At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central Oregon. While the infection appears limited to one farm so far, the discovery has raised new alarm ...

"If you come in with some symptoms of cough or sore throat or runny nose, whatever it is, I can't tell you if that's a cold, if it's walking pneumonia, if it's COVID or the flu. You do need to ...

A pig was infected with bird flu in Oregon, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Wednesday. It’s the first time bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, infected a pig in the United States ...

The most common type of flu is type A. This is the one you’re more likely to get while pregnant. Since the flu can be a severe illness in pregnancy, getting a flu shot is important. Influenza A ...

This development is, without a doubt, troubling. It affords the virus one of its best opportunities to date to evolve… ...

Second, the farm was not large, Scarpino noted, which means there are fewer opportunities for transmission between pigs and for evolution of the virus. "In addition, there are fewer humans working ...