The virus has not yet evolved to spread efficiently between people. Excellent vaccine technology exists, but the government ...

Bird flu continues to spread quickly through the U.S. farm system because that system is inherently a viral playground.

Astral Foods Ltd., one of South Africa’s biggest poultry producers by revenue, will start vaccinating chickens against bird ...

Purdue University researchers now have developed an innovative, paper-based diagnostic test for rapidly detecting avian ...

New research uses bird droppings to track avian flu in remote regions, revealing hidden hotspots and potential for early ...

According to the DA, the H5N9 flu strain can spread quickly and cause severe conditions among birds, but it “poses low risk to humans” who are not repeatedly exposed to the virus for long periods.

The Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI) confirmed the detection of the country’s first case of the H5N9 bird flu virus in Camarines Sur. The virus is officially called Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza ...

Outbreaks of avian influenza, also known as the H5N1 virus, ... a new strain of bird flu called H5N9 was determined to be the source of infection of a commercial duck farm in California.

The bird flu virus is spreading more rapidly among animals, with transmission to humans increasing, ... Mutating subtypes of the virus include a H5N9 subtype at a duck farm in California, ...

The World Organization for Animal Health said in a Jan. 27 notification that the H5N9 strain of avian bird flu has been detected for the first time at a duck farm in Merced County, California.

Reports of another bird flu virus called H5N9 on a duck farm in California, a new H5N1 variant spreading in cattle, and a cat possibly infecting its owner all add to concerns that a more dangerous ...