MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – The country’s first case of H5N9 bird flu has been identified in Merced County. This H5N9 strain, which was identified earlier this month, is different from the ...

Most of the bird flu cases reported so far in the U.S. have belonged to an influenza subtype known as HPAI H5N1. The newly ...

A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it continues to spread.

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

A California duck farm has culled thousands of birds as the virus seems to be trading genetics with other viruses ...

Health officials also detected a more common H5N1 strain of bird flu on the same farm which is located in Merced County, California. "This is the first confirmed case of HPAI H5N9 in poultry in the ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N9 has been identified in U.S. poultry for the first time, after outbreak at a commercial ...

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

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