Chinese researchers have discovered a new type of swine flu that can infect humans and has the potential to cause a future pandemic, according to a study released on Monday, though scientists have ...

Health department officials have issued an alert after multiple pigs became infected with swine flu at the Oakland County Fair in Pontiac, Mich., around July 14, according to a news release. After the ...

CHICAGO -- Two people have caught flu strains that normally circulate in pigs, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday, and pig exhibits at agricultural fairs appear to be ...

As the world sputters amid a global coronavirus pandemic that may have originated from bats in China, researchers released a study on Monday indicating that pigs could transmit a pandemic-level flu ...

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 ...

May 8 -- FRIDAY, May 8 (HealthDay News) -- The number of confirmed or suspected cases of swine flu in the United States was approaching 1,900, federal health officials said late Thursday, with most ...

WASHINGTON — History's deadliest flu pandemic, in 1918, may not have made a sudden jump from birds to people after all. New research says the pig played a big role as an influenza mixing bowl — a gene ...