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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.
A person from Ingham County has a confirmed case of swine flu, the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. “While we believe this is an isolated case, Michigan residents ...
Health officials in Marin County are investigating a possible H5N1 bird flu case in a child. Officials have been investigating since last week and are working with the California Department of ...
Nevertheless, the retention of influenza strains in pigs after these strains have disappeared from the human population might make pigs a reservoir where influenza viruses could persist, later emerging to reinfect humans once human immunity to these strains has waned. [74] Swine flu has been reported numerous times as a zoonosis in humans ...
Influenza-like illness (ILI), also known as flu-like syndrome or flu-like symptoms, is a medical diagnosis of possible influenza or other illness causing a set of common symptoms. These include fever, shivering , chills , malaise , dry cough , loss of appetite , body aches, nausea , and sneezing typically in connection with a sudden onset of ...
The serotypes that have been confirmed in humans, ordered by the number of confirmed human deaths, are: H1N1 caused "Spanish flu" in 1918 and "Swine flu" in 2009. [36] H2N2 caused "Asian Flu". H3N2 caused "Hong Kong Flu". H5N1, "avian" or "bird flu". [37] H7N7 has unusual zoonotic potential. [38] H1N2 infects pigs and humans. [39] H9N2, H7N2 ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identified the first two A/09(H1N1) swine flu cases in California on April 17, 2009, via the Border Infectious Disease Program, [135] for a San Diego County child, and a naval research facility studying a special diagnostic test, where influenza sample from the child from Imperial County was tested. [136]
There have been 58 cases of human-acquired H5N1 bird flu in the United States since March 2024, when the virus was first reported in dairy cows. Most of these cases involve dairy or poultry ...