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 ...

Dec. 19, 2024 — Stitching together four molecules found in the standard flu vaccine ensures an immune response to all of them, scientists have ... Flu Virus Remains Infectious in Refrigerated ...

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

Over 200 snow geese found across Lehigh Valley in Pennsylvania are suspected to have been killed by the bird flu, and experts are concerned the death toll could climb even higher as cases continue ...

Hospital staff around the country have been blaming a Swine Flu type epidemic ... emerged from the pandemic virus of 2009 and has been present in each Flu season since then.

Hospital staff around the country have been blaming a Swine Flu-type epidemic ... emerged from the pandemic virus of 2009 and has been present in each flu season since then.

The rise of bird flu across farms in California has raised questions about the virus and its potential threat to humans. While the threat to humans is currently small. Since April, there have been ...

When patients are positive on a general flu test — a common diagnostic that indicates human, swine, or bird flu — clinics should probe more deeply, Nuzzo said. The alternative is a wait-and ...