The Louisiana Department of Health has reported that an elderly patient who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1, in the U.S. has died.

A US man aged 66 has died after battling a bird flu infection for almost three weeks, the country’s apex health body, the ...

It was this time five years ago we were all beginning to get acquainted with a new term: COVID-19. You know how the rest went ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...

Since 2024, the U.S. has documented 66 human H5N1 cases, most of which were mild. However, a new genotype carried by migrating wild birds has caused severe infections, including one in Louisiana and ...

The H5N1 bird flu has been reported to have caused the death of a patient in Louisiana. Such a case poses a significant ...

Minnesota is approving the allocation of more than $1.2 million in lottery proceeds for the research of avian influenza in ...

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 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 ...

But Tulare County, and most other locales from Bakersfield to Fresno, has a notable lack of testing, or surveillance, of the ...

With 66 human cases and one death from bird flu in the current outbreak, there are several ways Americans could become sick.

The Louisiana Department of Health reported that a patient hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian ...