A new strain of a highly pathogenic and rare strain of bird flu has been reported on a duck farm in central California.

The United States reported a first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Monday. Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has spread around the globe in the past years,

British health authorities said they had detected a case of bird flu (H5N1) in a person in central England. The person acquired the infection on a farm, where they had close and prolonged contact with numerous infected birds,

Bird flu infections around the U.S. have forced mass cullings and resulted in the deaths of zoo animals and pets