Bird flu has claimed its first human in the United States, but health officials say the risk remains low and there are ...

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

The US has reported its first human death from avian influenza H5N1 in a person who had been admitted to hospital in Louisiana after being exposed to a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds.1 ...

Officials from the Louisiana Department of Health have announced the death of a patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, the ...

The only other human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in 2022 and may not have caused any illness, with the CDC stating that the "detection may have been the result of contamination of the nasal ...

The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday. The patient, who was exposed to non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds, was ...

The U.S. government failed to eliminate the virus on dairy farms when it was confined to a handful of states. Now at least ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.

Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...

Louisiana health authorities on Monday reported the first human death in the United States linked to bird flu, while noting ...