San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...

SAN FRANCISCO ... for influenza A. As part of SFDPH enhanced surveillance, the specimen was subsequently tested for H5N1." It is not yet clear how the child contracted bird flu.

The agency also does not believe it is currently missing cases of H5N1 infection, he said. However, the changes come in the context of a recent case of H5N1 in a child in San Francisco who had ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

When it comes to the potential of H5N1 avian flu, otherwise known as bird flu, picking up mutations that may lead to human-to ...

The discovery of bird flu in the San Mateo backyard flock prompted health officials to remind people to take biosecurity ...

UC San Francisco's Rais Vohra, MD, explains recent increase in reported virus infections and the risks of consuming raw cow’s milk.

Health officials have confirmed the presence of H5N1 (bird flu) in a backyard poultry flock in San Mateo County. The county said that while there are no current human cases of bird ...

Nearly 119,000 birds have been culled at a farm in California after a bird flu called H5N9 was detected among the poultry ...

While the H5N1 bird flu keep spreading, the first reported H5N9 outbreak in the United States has been identified on a duck ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza ... infected with H5N1 in the last year. On Friday, the San Francisco Department ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... diagnosed with influenza, a recent study reports an ... Single Mutation in H5N1 Influenza Surface ...