H5N9 has the potential to be more virulent for birds and other farm animals, but it is important to know that it does not pose any greater risk to humans, says Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San ...

U.S. health officials announced that a new strain of avian flu, H5N9, was discovered on a duck farm in Merced County, California. They quarantined the farm and ...

The Department of Agriculture warned egg prices may increase more than 20% this year, after December saw a year-over-year ...

New strain of bird flu detected in California as H5N9 detected on a duck farm in Merced County, California, David Murray ...

A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it continues to spread.

A new variant of the H5N1 bird flu — the same one that led to the death of a Louisiana man — has for first the first time been found in infected U.S. dairy cattle.

A version of the H5N1 bird flu virus that killed a person in Louisiana and severely sickened a teenager in Canada has now been detected in dairy herds in Nevada.

In the Jan. 24 report, the WOAH announced that H5N9 had been identified at a duck farm in Merced County, California. The current outbreak, which the report says was confirmed on Jan. 13 ...

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A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported the outbreak of the new strain, H5N9, earlier this week.

In late November, both H5N1 and H5N9 cases were discovered in a Merced County commercial duck meat farm, which led to the quarantine of the facility and the culling of more than 100,000 birds.