A Louisiana patient is the first person in the United States to die as a result of H5N1 infection. One expert likens what ...

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.

The U.S. has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu, in a person from Louisiana who contracted the virus from ...

The bird flu virus that brought a Canadian teen to the “brink of death” may have mutated while inside her body to become more ...

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

The CDC says the risk of bird flu to the general public is low, but public health experts say they are worried the virus could mutate and become more transmissible.

The Bay State has has been "dealing with an ongoing outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza H5N1 virus since early 2022." ...

Reports of the bird flu were detected in April in a farm in Texas. Since then, the dominant strain — H5N1 — was later detected in the first-confirmed human case in the United States. That person has ...