With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...
H5N1 - has led to the first known casualty. While there is no known cure, the CDC does recommend methods to protect yourself.
There is still a danger, however: a person in Louisiana recently became the first person in the country to die from H5N1.
The Louisiana patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in the first death in the U.S. caused by the H5N1 virus ...
A person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu has died.
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 ...
CDC reported the death of a person due to the H5N1 bird flu virus. Bird flu spreads from animals and birds to humans. The ...
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...
The U.S. has experienced its first death from bird flu (H5N1). The death happened in a Louisiana patient who contracted H5N1 after being exposed to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and ...
The bird flu, also known as avian influenza and H5N1, was implicated in the first human death from the infectious disease on ...
A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.
But, fatalities are not uncommon with H5N1 infections overall. According to data collected by the WHO, there have been 954 documented cases between 2003 and 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal, leading to ...