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 ...

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

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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 ...

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.

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 ...