CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday identified the strain of highly pathogenic avian flu found in a wild duck in South Carolina as H5N1.
That strain has caused a wave of outbreaks of bird flu in poultry in Europe and Asia.
H5N1 is one of the few bird flu strains that has passed to humans, although U.S. officials have said there is a low risk to people from the case in South Carolina.
(Reporting by Tom Polansek; Editing by Leslie Adler)
