Health officials are making a renewed call for vigilance against bird flu​, but some experts are puzzling over why reports of ...

The worst of the H5N1 avian flu outbreak — which began in 2024 and infected thousands of birds and dairy cows and dozens of ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — A Louisiana health insurance agency is shining a light on the importance of maternal mental health as Mother’s Day approaches. Research shows that one in ...

and there was one death -- a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to sick birds in a backyard flock. Among animals, more than 169 million commercial poultry or backyard birds have been infected ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (Louisiana First) — Louisiana is the most unaffordable state in the nation for auto insurance, according to state lawmakers, prompting a slate of reform bills aimed at lowering ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the United States more than a year after the first human case was detected ...

Rep. Tony Bacala presents his bill. (Allison Allsop / Louisiana Illuminator) Louisiana legislators are advancing a proposal with the goal of keeping tenured professors and critical employees from ...

Nearly 49,000… Louisiana reports first H5N1 bird flu death in U.S. The Louisiana Department of Health yesterday announced that a patient hospitalized last month for H5N1 bird flu has died, becoming ...

Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana resident died in January.

Health News Live Updates: Five years after COVID-19 shook the world, another lethal viral threat is making headlines the H5N1 or bird flu virus. A highly contagious strain of the H5N1 virus is ...

After more than a week of oil shooting vertically out of an unused well off the coast of Louisiana, the U.S. Coast Guard announced Sunday evening that the offshore well blowout — first reported ...

The patient in Louisiana was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which is a virus that can infect both birds and mammals. The virus in this particular patient revealed genetic ...