Since March of last year, the U.S. has reported 66 bird flu infections, primarily mild cases among farmworkers exposed to sick poultry or dairy cows.

As concerns about outbreaks of bird flu and the nation’s response continue to grow, the U.S. reported its first death from ...

TUESDAY, Jan. 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- A Louisiana resident has died after being hospitalized with bird flu in December of last year, marking the first known U.S. death from the virus.

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...

But Tulare County, and most other locales from Bakersfield to Fresno, has a notable lack of testing, or surveillance, of the ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - The risk to the general population from H5N1 bird flu remains low, a World Health Organization ...

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

The World Health Organisation has recorded more than 460 deaths of bird flu since 2003, but the Louisiana person was the ...

The holiday effect: People use a lot of eggs over the holidays, too, which has driven up demand in recent weeks. “The ...

While this is the first reported human fatality, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed 66 human ...

"We are worried we don't get any eggs. What are we going to do?" said Merie Belluomini, co-owner of San Francisco's Victoria Pastry Company.

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has confirmed two cases of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV) in Karnataka through routine surveillance. The cases, identified at Bengaluru Baptist Hospital, ...