San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...

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

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated timeline, ...

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

H5N9 is a rare strain of avian influenza. H5N1 is the more ... "Whether this novel H5N9 virus will cause human infections from its avian host and become a pandemic subtype is not known yet.

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus ... with H5N1 in the last year. On Friday, the San Francisco Department ...

A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide ... including avian influenza A(H5N1), have gained the ability to spread easily and sustainably among ...

The H5N9 strain of avian influenza is much more rare than the H5N1 which has been responsible for most of the reported human ...