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 US Department of Agriculture last week issued a conditional license for an avian flu vaccine for use in chickens, amid an outbreak ravaging poultry flocks, contributing to the sky-high price ...

adjacent to Sarpy County where I live. To help protect workers from the virus, a bill has just been introduced in Lincoln, which is a helpful preventive step. This is particularly important right now ...

The World Organization for Animal Health said in a Jan. 27 notification that the H5N9 strain of avian bird flu has been detected for the first time at a duck farm in Merced County, California.

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The statistics for the H5N1 strain of bird flu continue to show that the disease appears to be subsiding in Tulare County and the rest of California, but health professionals have a new cause for ...

The new bird flu strain was discovered at a commercial duck farm in California's Merced County. HealthDay News — A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United ...

But earlier this month, federal and local officials confirmed that the D1.1 genotype was spotted among cows at a dairy farm in Churchill County, Nevada. In the recent case, the farm worker had ...