A veterinarian with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is urging Islanders to be careful with their flocks of poultry and ...

The last avian flu outbreak in the Philippines, involving the H5N2 variant, was reported in January, according to the World Organization for Animal Health. That outbreak involved 15 out of 428 ...

USDA under then Secretary Tom Vilsack conditionally approved a vaccine made by Zoetis, containing a killed version of an H5N2 variant designed to work against circulating H5N1 variants.

In Mexico, an outbreak of H5N2, a different form of bird flu, was successfully controlled in the 1990s, and quite quickly, by vaccination along with culling and controls on poultry movement.

Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported the first known case of a human case of influenza H5N2, which was fatal, although the infected man had underlying health conditions.

Newly emergent highly pathogenic H5N9 subtype avian influenza A virus. Journal of Virology. 2015 Sep 1;89 (17):8806-15. 2. European Food Safety Authority, European Centre for Disease Prevention and ...

10 In May 2024, Mexico reported the first H5N2 fatal human case of avian influenza without known poultry or wild bird exposure. Proper pasteurization and cooking of poultry and dairy products should ...

Birds at the 11 commercial poultry farms and one other property hit so far this month by H5N2 avian influenza in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley have been euthanized. The Canadian Food Inspection ...

USDA under then Secretary Tom Vilsack conditionally approved a vaccine made by Zoetis, containing a killed version of an H5N2 variant designed to work against circulating H5N1 variants. However, the ...