This winter’s flu season isn’t over yet, but global health authorities are already preparing for the next one. Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) announced which strains it recommends ...

A new study has identified an influenza virus circulating in pigs that shows multiple traits associated with pandemic potential. Known as H1N2, the virus belongs to a lineage of flu viruses that ...

Over the weekend, health officials in Spain reportedly informed the World Health Organization (WHO) of a possible human case ...

ATLANTA - The swine flu virus that has frightened the world is beginning to look a little less ominous. New York City officials reported Friday that the swine flu still has not spread beyond a few ...

"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 ...

As international fears of a swine flu pandemic rise, the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation is working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to combat the outbreak. Swine flu is a ...

CARSON CITY ” State officials on Monday outlined aggressive efforts to deal with swine flu in the event the contagious virus, which has been detected in several other states, shows up in Nevada. While ...

The disease originally was nicknamed swine flu because the virus that causes the d isease originally jumped to humans from the live pigs in which it evolved. The virus is a "reassortant" -- a mix of ...

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 ...