In 2024, at least 66 human cases of bird flu have been reported in the United States, each one raising the risk of another ...

A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed ...

Federal health officials have confirmed unsettling new details about the first United States case of severe bird flu, ...

The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Of those, 39 were associated with dairy herds and 23 with ...

A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of ...

The patient was likely infected after having contact with sick and dead birds in a backyard flock, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said earlier this month.

Gizmodo reviews the weirdest medical cases of 2024. World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, ...

Bird flu cases are on the rise in the U.S., and the CDC is on high alert. With 66 confirmed human cases so far, officials are ...

Demetre Daskalakis, director of the CDC’s National ... a news conference on the H5N1 situation in the country. But Daskalakis deferred all questions about the Louisiana individual’s age ...

On Friday, the CDC confirmed a person from Louisiana had avian influenza A virus, H5N1, after they were exposed to sick and dead birds in a backyard flock, according to a CDC press release.

The Louisiana patient was hospitalized ... hoping [the] virus would burn out and it didn’t.” The CDC has confirmed 65 cases of H5N1 bird flu in humans in 2024. Most of the cases were caused ...

A resident of southwestern Louisiana is currently hospitalized after being found with the first presumptive positive human case of pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, better known as Bird Flu.