A new strain of bird flu, H5N9, has been detected for the first time in the United States, raising concerns about how it continues to spread.

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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 ...

The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu on a duck farm in California, according to the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) on Monday. H5N9 is a rare subtype of the ...

And now there is H5N9, which so far has been detected only in Merced County, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which performed the testing and genetic sequencing. “This is the ...

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The different, rarer sub-type of the common avian influenza H5N1 virus has been found on a duck farm in Merced County ... to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ABC News and CNN contributed ...