A variety of animals suffer from their own strains of seasonal influenza. Oct. 9, 2008 — -- As flu season begins and doctors promote flu shots and await patients coming in with the familiar ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected. Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death was ...

We often hear about what happens when animals give humans terrible diseases such as Swine Flu or Lyme Disease. But what ...

A new report from the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that the Government is not adequately prepared for the increasing risk of animal diseases, and would struggle to manage a major outbreak.

"There is no reason for panic." Amid the sprawling coronavirus pandemic, scientists around the world also have been keeping a close watch on another potentially dangerous virus: swine flu. Through ...

The flu sickens millions of people in the U.S. every year, and the past year has been particularly tough. Although infections are trending downward, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

* WHO calls for greater flu surveillance of humans, animals * No recommendation to cull pigs after Canada transmission * WHO has no meeting scheduled to review pandemic level By Laura MacInnis GENEVA, ...

Pigs could play a key role in ending the flu as we know it. That’s the message behind new research testing a computer-designed vaccine that protects swine from flu—and may one day do the same for ...

An outbreak of African swine fever has been confirmed at a farm of about 6,000 animals in the western Romanian small town of Olari, Arad County, and the authorities will preventively cull 700 pigs ...

An expert has named three viruses that could pose a serious threat to humans in 2026. These bugs could be “poised” to cause infections in “unexpected places or in unexpected numbers”.