Last month, San Francisco Public Health Department officials reported that state investigators had detected H5N1 — the avian flu subtype making its way through U.S. cattle, domestic poultry and ...

A San Francisco resident is the second child in the United States to contract the viral bird flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to SFGATE. A CDC spokesperson said ...

A pair of macaws perch on a tree inside the newly renovated South American Tropical Forest exhibit at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, California, on Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. A wild hawk that ...

Public health officials say a child in San Francisco has presumptively tested positive for H5N1 bird flu. Skip to content. ... A look at egg prices and where the fight against avian flu is ...

Avian Flu Has Hit Dairies So Hard That They’re Calling It ‘Covid for Cows ... Soumya Karlamangla reported from San Francisco, and Orlando Mayorquín and Jesus Jiménez reported from Los Angeles.

On Wednesday, the CDC confirmed a bird flu infection in a child whose illness — symptoms included fever and conjunctivitis — was flagged by San Francisco health authorities last week.

On Friday, the San Francisco Department of Public Health reported a presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu in a child, ... told Salon H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses are a type A influenza virus.

San Francisco’s health department does not believe that any of the wastewater hits for bird flu are related to human infection. “No one really thinks at this point that the detections are due to human ...

According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, highly pathogenic avian influenza — also known as bird flu or H5N1 — is a highly contagious and often deadly disease primarily found in poultry.

In addition to San Diego, wastewater bird flu detections in California included west Contra Costa County on June 10, Turlock on Sept. 4, southeast San Francisco on June 18 and June 26 and Palo ...

SAN FRANCISCO — A fast-growing outbreak of avian flu has upended California’s dairy industry, the nation’s largest producer of milk, infecting most of the state’s herds and putting ...