The State of Louisiana identified a case of a domestic cat with bird flu in New Orleans, according to a spokesperson from the ...

A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday. The patient, the first in the U.S. to die from bird ...

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 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 first case of bird flu was confirmed in New Orleans last week after the H5N1 virus was detected in a house cat on Jan. 14, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.  The ...

Flu activity remains high in Louisiana. That’s the word from state health officials and detailed in the Respiratory Virus ...

A school has notified parents that there has been a flu outbreak amongst students and now the school wants parents to take ...

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

A number of bird flu cases have been reported in the Chicago area in recent weeks, leading to many questions about how quickly the virus is spreading and how worried residents should be.

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

The patient was reportedly over the age of 65 and was said to have suffered from underlying medical conditions.