H5N9 has the potential to be more virulent for birds and other farm animals, but it is important to know that it does not pose any greater risk to humans, says Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San ...

U.S. health officials announced that a new strain of avian flu, H5N9, was discovered on a duck farm in Merced County, California. They quarantined the farm and ...

We talked to experts about where the science is on risks to humans and how the virus is messing with the food supply.

The Department of Agriculture is trying to re-hire several employees it accidentally fired over the weekend who were working ...

New strain of bird flu detected in California as H5N9 detected on a duck farm in Merced County, California, David Murray ...

An outbreak of avian influenza affecting poultry and livestock has led to the culling of hundreds of millions of birds, ...

Poultry flocks infected with bird flu are culled to prevent the spread of the virus whereas culling wild birds is generally ...

The woman had a backyard flock of chickens that got sick and died, a CDC spokesperson said Saturday. The state health ...

The Trump administration would do well to follow the lead of Maryland, which is taking decisive action to stop the spread of ...

International: US President Donald Trump has sought to slash the number of federal employees, a task masterminded by ...

Since 2021, experts have seen bird flu — also called H5N1 influenza or highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) — spreading "fairly quickly" across the wild and domestic bird populations and, now, ...

Avian influenza, commonly called “bird flu,” is a viral infection that spreads in birds, cows and other animals.