H5N9 is “not commonly seen in poultry in general,” says Eman Anis, assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. (Anis is part of a lab that conducts national ...

The Department of Agriculture is scrambling to reverse the terminations. Meanwhile, many CDC scientists who worked in a lab program created to address embarrassing lab-safety failures, and improve ...

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses are known to cause severe disease and high mortality among infected ...

The recent outbreaks of avian influenza (bird flu) in different states in India have sparked concerns about poultry safety.

Contact monitoring is still under way for 216 people who are at quarantine facilities located throughout the country.

(Anis is part of a lab that conducts national testing of poultry samples for avian influenza.) The virus is the result of a combination of H5N1, H7N9, and H9N2, according to researchers in China ...