The different, rarer sub-type of the common avian influenza H5N1 virus has been found on a duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World Organization for Animal Health.
The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating ...
US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying ...
The H5N1 virus has a ways to go before it can successfully jump to humans but that it doesn’t reduce the threat it poses.
One person infected with the bird flu died in Louisiana on Jan. 6. The patient was over 65 and became ill after contact with ...