The Louisiana Department of Health announced Jan. 6 that a patient hospitalized last month for H5N1 bird flu has died, becoming the first U.S. death from the virus. The agency said the individual ...

The U.S. has reported its first death due to bird flu, aka H5N1. How deadly is H5N1? Experts discuss bird flu fatality rate amid ongoing outbreak.

Moderna surged as investors turned eyed potential demand for a vaccine to protect against bird flu after the US reported its ...

H5N1 has infected 66 people in the United States since early 2024, mostly causing mild illness. A Louisiana man was the first to get severely sick.

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

A flock of turkeys in eastern Indiana has tested positive for H5N1 or bird flu. The farm, in Jay County on the border of Ohio ...

The risk to the general population from H5N1 bird flu remains low, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday, ...

There is still a danger, however: a person in Louisiana recently became the first person in the country to die from H5N1.

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New research led by La Jolla Institute for Immunology scientists on the H5N1 virus, or “bird flu,” suggests that many people ...

The first U.S. bird flu death — a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms — has been reported. Louisiana health officials announced the death on ...