As California’s Central Valley makes headlines for the growing ... Vohra explains what we know about bird flu, both the H5N1 and H5N9 variants, and the precautions we can take to prevent it from ...
H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. (Anis is part of a lab that conducts national ...
New strain of bird flu detected in California as H5N9 detected on a duck farm in Merced County, California, David Murray writes.
H5N9 has been seen in the past, Cennimo noted, and generally causes mild illness in birds. "The ducks in California, however, were dying," he said. "Genetic testing showed this H5N9 was different ...
There has not been a confirmed case of human bird flu in Tulare County since Dec. 10, according to the Tulare County Health & ...
A strain of bird flu never seen before in the United States has been detected among poultry at a California farm. The virus, called highly pathogenic H5N9, is a type of avian influenza ...
(WXYZ) — In today’s Health Alert, a new strain of bird flu - H5N9 - has been detected in the U.S. The first confirmed case was found at a commercial duck farm in ...
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.