A man in Washington has been diagnosed with a strain of the bird flu that’s never been detected in humans before. The ...

A person in the US has been infected with a form of avian influenza - commonly known as bird flu - never reported in humans ...

There is no guarantee that a person-to-person virus would be benign, scientists say, and vaccines and treatments at hand may not be sufficient. By Apoorva Mandavilli Tens of millions of farm animals ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at avian flu. Avian influenza, also called avian flu or bird flu, is an illness that usually affects only birds. There are many different strains of avian flu: 16 H subtypes and ...

Objective: This study aimed to analyze the genetic evolution and molecular characteristics of H5, H7, and H9 subtypes of avian influenza viruses in the external environment of poultry in Jining from ...

The USDA’s Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service previously documented H7 low pathogenicity avian influenza (LPAI) in U.S. wild bird surveillance this year and in previous years, but this is the ...

A new strain of a highly pathogenic bird flu known as H7N9 has surfaced at a poultry farm in Mississippi where chickens are raised for breeding. The finding of the new strain came as researchers ...

JACKSON, MISS. — A variant of avian influenza that has not been identified in the United States since 2017 was recently discovered in a commercial broiler breeder flock in Noxubee County, Miss. On ...

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The first outbreak in the U.S. of deadly H7N9 bird flu strain since 2017 was detected in a Mississippi poultry farm, raising fresh health concerns. H7N9, which is separate from the H5N1 strain that ...