A Louisiana patient has died from bird flu. It's the first bird flu death in the US. Public health risk remains low, officials report.

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 animals. The case, much like the patient in Louisiana, was in a person with other underlying conditions, though it’s not clear what those may have been.

Why are bird flu cases high right now in poultry? U.S. officials brace every winter for upticks in bird flu because migrating wild birds that spread the virus fly south during the

Two different strains of bird flu have been cropping up across the country, posing a threat to livestock and possibly raising prices at the grocery store. So far, only one case has been reported in Vermont,