America should have more aggressively intervened almost a year ago.

A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...

With more than 133 million poultry birds affected by avian influenza across the U.S., some states are experiencing egg ...

The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

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

On Monday, Louisiana health officials announced that a person hospitalized last month with a severe case of avian influenza — ...

The death of a Louisiana resident who was over the age of 65 signals that future H5N1 infections are not guaranteed to be ...

The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...