How are H5N9 and H5N1 different? What to know after California bird flu outbreak
The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a newer variant of the H5N1 virus. That variant is called H5N1 D1.1, the USDA spokesperson said, which has emerged over the past year to dominate U.S. cases in wild birds and poultry.
What we know – and don’t know – about a new strain of bird flu reported in Merced County
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 reported subtype in Merced County is called “HPAI H5N9.” Although H5N9 has been reported before in the U.S., this was the first time it was reported as “highly pathogenic.”
The newly reported H5N9 strain was found Monday at a duck farm in Merced County, California, according to the World ...
As California's Central Valley makes headlines for the growing number of people testing positive for the bird flu from exposure to dairy cows, Rais Vohra, MD, professor at UC San Francisco, Fresno and ...
In San Mateo County, California, bird flu has now been detected in a cat. This comes after the county recently confirmed the presence of a bird flu in a backyard poultry flock. The county says they ...
H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania ...
New York has ordered a weeklong shutdown of all live bird markets in New York City, Westchester and Long Island after seven ...
A new strain of bird flu has been detected on a duck farm in California. The World Organisation for Animal Health reported ...
First U.S. detection of virulent H5N9 strain, at a California duck farm, draws scrutiny as evidence of genetic reassortment ...
Ohio leads the country in the number of commercially-raised birds that have had to be destroyed over the past month because of exposure to the avian flu. Close to 10 million birds, mostly chickens but ...
Wisconsin is among 10 states to report human cases of the H5N1 virus so far, with more than half reported in California.
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