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 ...

This H5N9 outbreak occurred on a duck farm in Merced, California, and has been reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health. While H5N9 has been found in poultry before, this is the first ...

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

California. The H5N9 strain has been detected before in North America among wild birds over the past two years. The strain was even detected in turkeys in Wisconsin in the 1960s, the earliest ...

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 ...