Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) recently confirmed the deadly bird flu genotype responsible for ...

The newly reported H5N9 strain was found Monday at a duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

Over 1 billion chicken wings are estimated be eaten during the Super Bowl this Sunday. Will the recent 'bird flu' cases ...

Bird flu has been detected in a backyard poultry flock in San Mateo, local officials said Tuesday. No human cases have been ...

First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...

A strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus that has typically spread in poultry and wild birds recently jumped to dairy cattle in ...

Experts stressed that the new strain did not itself appear to be an immediate human threat. But the rise of a new strain is troubling and points to the risk of a viral phenomenon known as ...

US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...