While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, there has been for the first time ever a reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States. This occurred on a duck farm in California ...

A rare strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected on a duck farm in California’s Merced County, marking the first confirmed case of this virus in U.S. poultry. The World Organization for Animal ...

Lithuania has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, on a laying hen farm ...

The newly reported H5N9 strain was found Monday at a duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World ...

A California duck farm has culled thousands of birds as the virus seems to be trading genetics with other viruses ...

The Mail has recruited leading virologists, epidemiologists and pandemic planners to imagine the kind of scenario that might ...

The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more ...

At the height of annual flu season, U.S. health officials on Thursday said clinicians should more quickly ensure people who are ill don't have bird flu. While the risk to the general public ...

DHS added there have been 16 pediatric flu deaths this season nationwide. According to the DHS Respiratory Illness Data Snapshot website, respiratory illness activity was reported as “high ...

A quadruple whammy of viruses – flu, COVID, norovirus, and respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV – is hitting the U.S. as the year comes to a close. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...

The most recent flu pandemic was the 2009 so-called swine flu pandemic. That pandemic emerged when three different viruses — a human virus, an avian virus and a swine virus — all mixed together.

A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with severe illness from H5N1 bird flu has died — the first human death from this type of avian influenza in the U.S., the Louisiana Department of ...