The patient was hospitalized in Louisiana, the health agency said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States.

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We asked experts how concerned they are. By Dani Blum California has declared a state of emergency over the outbreak of bird flu among dairy cows. H5N1, the virus that causes avian influenza ...

The culprit: a bird flu virus, known as H5N1, that had recently arrived in North America. Over the months that followed, the virus raced through the region, killing tens of thousands of northern ...

He noted that avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, has been reported in 108 countries and territories over five continents in the last three years. “And as of December 2024, the ...

It’s the first ever confirmed instance of a severe bird flu infection in the United States and the first reported human case of bird flu in Louisiana. The patient was not infected via work at a ...

We could continue to improve the timely surveillance of animals and raw milk — batches of which have been recalled for potential bird flu risk — to better identify infected herds and ...

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It said bird flu had recently been detected across the East Riding of Yorkshire and in Hull. It is now a legal requirement for all bird keepers in the areas to "mitigate the risk of further ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same influenza virus -- in dairy cattle have ...

The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for the worst. For decades successive waves of bird flu infections have ...

A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with severe illness from H5N1 bird flu has died — the first human death from this type of avian influenza in the U.S., the Louisiana Department of ...