A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, has died, health officials said Monday.

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 ...

The first patient hospitalized with avian influenza in the United States has died in Louisiana, the state's department of health announced Monday.

A person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu by a backyard flock has died. This marks the first U.S. human death linked to H5N1 ...

The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday. The ...

The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death in Mexico back in May 2024 in a patient with no known exposure to farm ...

"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

An infectious disease expert says the relatively mild cases of avian influenza detected so far among dairy workers don’t ...

Avian flu is rampant in poultry farms and in wild birds in the U.S. Every mutation brings the virus one step closer to the ...

The Suffolk County health department announced that Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza has been detected in a commercial ...

Seven Delmarva-region commercial operations have now reported cases of the highly contagious virus.