This week, the Gizmodo science team explored the disturbing trend towards raw milk amid a bird flu outbreak among cattle, and ...

A flurry of reports about the genetics of the bird flu currently infecting U.S. cattle are offering insight into how the virus has and continues to spread. Since it first emerged in late 2020, this ...

In a study published in 2009, Worobey and other researchers traced the origin of the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic to events in ...

The distribution of flu virus receptors in cow mammary glands helps explain the high H5N1 viral loads in milk, but it also ...

Health officials have been steadfast in their assurances. The risk of H5N1 bird flu jumping into humans is low, but even if a ...

Swine flu, caused by the H1N1 virus, primarily spreads through respiratory droplets expelled when an infected person coughs ...

Headlines are flying after the Department of Agriculture confirmed that the H5N1 bird flu virus has infected dairy cows ...

Cows have the same kinds of gateways into their cells as humans and birds, a new study shows. The finding suggests that cows ...

Health officials in Jaipur and Sriganganagar are monitoring active cases of swine flu and leptospirosis in Rajasthan. Dr. Ravi Prakash Mathur, Director of Rajasthan Health Department, emphasizes ...

Swine Flu' Strain Has Passed from Humans to Swine Nearly 400 Times Since 2009 July 27, 2023 — A new study of the strain of influenza A responsible for the 2009 H1N1 pandemic -- pdm09 -- shows ...

The Food and Drug Administration revealed last week that it had found traces of the bird flu virus in 20% of a nationally representative sample of commercially sold pasteurized milk. That ...

Pig farmers have a problem. Since it was first detected in Kenya a century ago, African swine fever has spread to over 50 countries worldwide. In China, recent outbreaks have killed an estimated ...