The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California, the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) said on Monday. U.S. authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm in Merced County,

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The risk to the general public remains low, authorities said, after someone was infected with bird flu while in close contact with birds. View on euronews