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

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 ...

H5N9 is a rare subtype of the influenza A virus that can cause highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as bird ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S.

The U.S. is reporting its first confirmed outbreak of H5N9 avian flu at a California duck farm amid a global surge in its ...

The United States has reported its first H5N9 bird flu outbreak in California, affecting almost 119,000 ducks. Both H5N9 and ...

The first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry has been reported in California on a duck farm leading to the culling of ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza virus of the H5N1 subtype is presently among the top viruses of pandemic concern," the authors wrote in the paper. According to the CDC, 66 people across the ...

told Salon H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses are a type A influenza virus. "We do need subtype confirmation to make sure it's ‘H5,’ and sub-type testing is not widely accessible." ...

It also recommends asking about recent close contact with a symptomatic person with a possible or confirmed case of H5N1 ... for influenza A but negative for seasonal flu subtypes H1 and H3 ...

A highly pathogenic subtype of avian influenza, known as H5N1, has affected greater than 90 million ... [+] poultry in the United States. In early 2020, a novel virus—now known as SARS-CoV-2 ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...