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

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US officials are investigating the appearance of a strain of bird flu identified in the US for the first time, a worrying ...

Detected on a duck farm in Merced County, California, it’s the first confirmed case of H5N9 in poultry in the US. Read more ...

The Department of Agriculture has a national H5N1 vaccine stockpile for use in commercial ... The arrival of La Niña is starving California of rain, and more high Santa Ana winds could be on ...

called H5N1. That strain has been responsible for all the egg shortages and infections in humans. Now, a strain called H5N9 was just detected on a duck farm in California, according to a report ...

By Apoorva Mandavilli Apoorva Mandavilli covered the Covid-19 and mpox outbreaks, and has tracked the spread of H5N1 since 2003 ... holds a few million doses of vaccine against bird flu.

But there is no cure for HIV or AIDS or a vaccine for human use to prevent infection. One of the labs involved in current research to design such a vaccine is at La Jolla-based Scripps Research ...

coinciding with the discovery of a rare H5N9 bird flu strain in California and upcoming Senate confirmation hearings for vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. What Happened: The developments sent ...

Since 2023, Moderna has been working to create a "pandemic influenza vaccine" which would help protect against certain ...

Detected on a duck farm in Merced County, California ... shows that H5N1 is starting to mix genetic material with other influenza viruses, “which is concerning”, said vaccine expert Peter ...