Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...
First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...
A California duck farm has culled thousands of birds as the virus seems to be trading genetics with other viruses ...
A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it ...
A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were ...
Dr Angela Rasmussen, a virologist in Canada, warned: 'It does suggest there's enough [H5N1] virus around that reassortment might become more frequent. With enough H5 in these animals and enough ...
The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...
the higher the chances that something called viral reassortment, in which genes could swap and mutate in an organism to make the virus more infectious, could occur. Health officials found H5N9 on ...
A new strain of highly pathogenic bird flu (H5N9), which has never been seen in the United States before, was recently discovered on a duck farm in ...
The finding at a California duck farm is raising alarms among public health experts that bird flu could further mutate into ...