In June of this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed the death of a person who had contracted the bird flu strain A (H5N2), the first laboratory-confirmed human case of influenza A ...

At least 61 people in the US have contracted bird flu amid outbreaks in poultry and dairy cows. What are the symptoms? What ...

Elsewhere in Asia, there have been further poultry outbreaks in Indonesia, Israel, Japan, the Philippines and Taiwan.

For example, in 2004, a highly dangerous bird flu strain appeared in a Texas chicken flock. The outbreak involved an H5N2 virus (not the H5N1 bird flu). By April 2004, the outbreak had ended.

MANILA, Philippines — The first-ever case of H5N2 — a bird flu subtype that was found to be transmittable to humans — in the country has been detected in Talisay, Camarines Norte ...

In May, authorities in Mexico confirmed a fatal human case of H5N2 bird flu. The patient was the first human to become infected with an avian H5 virus in Mexico and the first human case of H5N2 ...

Ducks and chickens within the 1-kilometer radius of the farm where the H5N2 strain of bird flu was first detected tested negative for the virus, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).

M ANILA, Philippines — The first-ever case of H5N2, a bird flu subtype transmittable to humans, has been detected in Talisay, Camarines Norte, the Department of Agriculture (DA) announced on ...

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In a statement, the BAI said it “confirms the detection of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) Type A Subtype H5N2 in a duck farm located (in) Talisay, Camarines Norte.” The agency said the ...

And immediately, once controlled, we will declare the area bird-flu free,” he added. The BAI launched an investigation following the detection of type A subtype H5N2 at a duck farm located in ...