Among 61 people infected with bird flu in the U.S. this year, a Louisiana patient is the first to have "severe" disease ...

There have been reports of bird flu cases throughout the U.S. and one confirmed case in Louisiana. Here's what the CDC says ...

The death from bird flu of a person in Washington is a reminder that avian flu is circulating widely during flu season, ...

The U.S. is seeing a post-Thanksgiving spike in influenza, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on ...

MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP / AFP via Getty Images As birds fly south for the winter, they’re carrying with them some unwelcome cargo: the H5N1 virus, or bird flu. In the past 30 days, the virus has struck 66 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Local doctors are warning of what could be the most contagious flu season in recent memory, as this year the H3N2 strain emerges as the dominant variant. “We talk about it as ...

Cows get bird flu, too Since 2024, bird flu has also been detected in dairy cows and their milk. The USDA is monitoring the milk supply; the best way to stay safe is to drink pasteurized milk, not raw ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Flu activity in Louisiana is the highest in the U.S. as the Thanksgiving holiday nears. According to CDC data reporting flu activity for the week ending on Nov. 15 ...

A person in the Washington State has died of avian influenza. It’s the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. since January—but the infection was of a different strain than the one that has been ...

Louisiana is heading into flu season and the Thanksgiving holiday with the highest flu activity level in the country. And while the number of severe cases of the illness at hospitals remains low, ...

An unprecedented number of bird flu outbreaks among wild birds and their wide geographic spread are driving an early and ...