Other items Chinese officials told traders to halt purchases of include pork, cotton, and corn.
A Virginia pastor who once criticized the public reaction to the coronavirus pandemic as “mass hysteria” has succumbed to the illness, news reports say.
While North Korea downplays the African Swine Fever epidemic, South Korea has taken an aggressive stand on the matter by ordering its snipers to eliminate the influx of wayward boars into the country.
Scientists differ on whether this strain is more virulent than past.
A new study claims more than one-half of India's 1.2 billion people have their lives cut short because of "dangerously high" levels of air pollution.
Amid a mounting death toll, the Indian government on Wednesday asked chemists to stock Tamiflu, a drug used to treat the viral disease.
Research has shown that Washington sea otters can carry influenza viruses, but they did not become infected by humans.
A new study shows how scientists used the 2009 pandemic as a “natural experiment” to discover how the body’s immune system builds resistance to the flu.
Middle-earth, the land of hobbits, may be mythical, but so too is New Zealand. The only difference is you can visit the latter.
Swine flu is making a comeback as a new strain of the virus has begun spreading, with more than 100 cases reported this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The surprising culprit? State and county fairs. And doctors warn its now much easier to transmit among humans.
The total confirmed cases of the Influenza A variant virus that has been transmissible from swine to humans in Indiana jumped from just 11 last week. The cases, which show symptoms of a mild seasonal flu, have been found in 18 counties across the state, state health official said.
A virus that jumped from birds to seals turns out to have adaptations that could make it transmissible to humans as well.
A new study says the swine flu pandemic of 2009 might have killed as many as 579,000 people. The original count, compiled by the World Health Organization, put the number at 18,500.
A swine flu outbreak in India has claimed 12 lives since the beginning of this month and more than a hundred people have been infected so far. The source of the outbreak has not yet been determined, but India's Health Ministry has said it is being contained and urged people not to panic.
Counterfeit drugs pose a significant threat to public health, but sales of fake drugs grows steadily.
The virus EV-71, a more virulent enterovirus, has infected more than 6,000 and killed nine children since January in Vietnam. A 22-month-old boy has died from hand, foot and mouth disease in central Vietnam, bringing the country's death toll nine this January, an official said.