The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak for a long time. Still, the virus is ...

The CDC reported, on X, formerly known as Twitter, “CDC confirms first severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. While an investigation into the source of the infection is ongoing, it has been ...

Scientists also know a lot more about H5N1 bird flu than they did the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the US has been preparing for the threat of a new flu outbreak for a long time. Avian influenza ...

But how do researchers know that if a person tests positive for influenza A, it’s not H5N1 avian flu? “We don’t have the ability to differentiate through quick, antigen tests at this time ...

ALL RIGHT, DOCTOR WILES The first person to have a severe case of H5N1 bird flu in the United States has died, according to the Louisiana Department of Health. This is the first human death from ...

also known as avian flu H5N1, though there is concern that the virus, which has spread among farm cows in the US, may mutate and spread to humans, leading to a flu pandemic. One of the barriers ...

What you need to know A Louisiana person has died from H5N1 bird flu, though they were in an at-risk age group and had underlying health conditions. 66 people in the US have contracted the strain ...

For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

have been used to treat bird flu. Historically, of the more than 900 people known to have caught H5N1 globally, more than half have died. These previous deaths affected people outside the U.S. and ...