In late January, scientists at the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) reported the first cases of H5N9 avian influenza in the U.S., on a duck farm in California. The latest strain isn’t a ...

In a troubling development, the highly pathogenic H5N9 avian flu has been detected in U.S. poultry for the first time. The ...

The first H5N9 avian influenza virus outbreak in the U.S has been identified on a duck farm in Merced, California. Pictured here is a random duck, not from that farm. (Photo: Getty) A bird in hand may ...

A new strain of bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, or HPAI) has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reported the outbreak of the new ...

On Monday, the U.S. reported an outbreak of bird flu called H5N9 that is different from the H5N1 strain that is currently surging across the country. The outbreak occurred in a flock of commercial ...

A new strain of bird flu — H5N9 — has been detected in California’s Merced County at a commercial duck operation. According to the World Organization for Animal Health — an international consortium of ...

MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The country’s first case of H5N9 bird flu has been identified in Merced County, California, officials say. This H5N9 strain, which was identified earlier this month ...

H5N9 is a rare strain of avian influenza. H5N1 is the more common strain of the bird flu and has been responsible for most of the reported human cases. H5N1 was responsible for the first human death ...

A strain H5N9 of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly called bird flu, has been detected for the first time in US poultry. The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The ...