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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, Oct. 30, the Oregon Department of Agriculture and the USDA announced one of five pigs on a farm in Crook County, near Bend, Oregon has tested positive for avian flu, or H5N1.

A mass cull of poultry has been ordered after an outbreak of bird flu on a farm in Yorkshire. A 3km protection zone and 10km surveillance zone have been put in place around the farm near Hornsea ...

H5N1 bird flu had been confirmed in a pig in a backyard farm in Oregon, the first detection of the virus in swine in the country, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Wednesday. Pigs ...

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 ...

The H5N1 bird flu strain has affected 394 dairy herds and over 104 million poultry across the US. A pig in Oregon tested positive for bird flu, raising concerns about potential human transmission ...

A pig at a farm in the US state of Oregon is infected with bird flu, raising concerns about the virus' potential to affect humans. The H5N1 case was the first time bird flu was detected in swine ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) -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 on Wednesday.

This was something virologists had been worrying about ever since this highly pathogenic strain of bird flu started its rapid global spread in 2020. But why were we worrying specifically about pigs?

A second commercial broiler poultry farm west of Springville in Tulare County was confirmed to have an outbreak of bird flu on Oct. 24. This outbreak affects an estimated 6,000 birds. On Oct. 16 ...