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.

01. The United States has confirmed its first known severe human infection of H5N1 bird flu, in a person in Louisiana believed to have contracted the virus through contact with sick or dead birds ...

(CNN) — A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country’s first severe case of H5N1 bird flu show the virus likely mutated in the patient to ...

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

Dec 13 (Reuters) - The Louisiana Department of Health said on Friday it has detected the first presumptive positive human case of H5N1 bird flu infection in the U.S. state. The individual is a ...

The day after Christmas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that it had identified new mutations to the H5N1 bird-flu virus in a “severely ill” patient in Louisiana.

A patient in Louisiana with a severe case of the bird flu has died. Mutations in the virus are deepening concerns about the spread of H5N1. A patient who'd been hospitalized in Louisiana with ...

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 ...