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

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S. authorities that a strain of bird flu that scientists call H5N9 had been ...

Vohra explains what we know about bird flu, both the H5N1 and H5N9 variants, and the precautions we can take to prevent it from becoming a public health emergency. Bird flu originated as a common name ...

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 ...

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 ...

"In this case, the H5 in the H5N9 was the H5 from the currently circulating H5N1 bird flu that is more pathogenic." "While H5N9 is not generally a very dangerous virus, we need to keep an eye on ...

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 ...

You can get in touch with Jesus by emailing j.mosquera@newsweek.com H5N9 is a rare subtype of the influenza A virus that can cause highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu.

Avian influenza is one of the top emerging infectious ... said almost 119,000 birds were killed at the site after H5N9 was detected — the first time the strain has been confirmed in U.S. poultry.

Vohra explains what we know about bird flu, both the H5N1 and H5N9 variants, and the precautions we can take to prevent it from becoming a public health emergency. Bird flu originated as a common ...