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

The government is investigating a rare strain of avian flu, H5N9, detected on a duck farm in central California, according to ...

Experts share tips on where to find reliable bird flu updates amid the communication freeze for federal health agencies.

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Bird flu, also called avian influenza, is a virus that primarily impacts poultry flocks. It is usually passed onto them by ...

It's an outbreak farmers are forced to handle — and you pay for. Avian bird flu has had a nationwide outbreak since 2022, but ...

The team found that animals that had the virus inoculated directly into their lungs became severely ill, whereas animals that ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same influenza virus -- in dairy cattle have ... Dec. 17, 2024 — Despite national medical guidelines ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing ...

The bird flu claimed the life of a 65-year-old Louisiana resident who had underlying medical conditions. This is the first known human fatality caused by H5N1 avian influenza. The bird flu-related ...

So far, there have been 66 human cases of bird flu reported in 10 states. In the nearly nine months since the first human case of bird flu was detected in the United States, the virus has ...

The first human bird flu death was reported out of Louisiana on Monday, Jan. 6. The same case was the first serious case of H5N1 in humans in the U.S. The Louisiana Department of Health said in a ...