It is possible that horses were forced to feed on the carcasses of dead birds, the natural carriers of H5N1, as much of ...

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 ...

San Bernardino resident Joseph Journell says he lost two beloved cats after they drank raw milk contaminated with bird flu ...

While cases of bird flu in humans have steadily climbed since last fall, health officials maintain the risk to humans is low ...

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 ...

The patient was infected after contact with domestic and wild birds, specifically a non-commercial backyard flock and wild ...

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

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

Human MxA protein suppresses mammalian H5N1 virus replication, but emerging mutations may enable partial evasion, raising ...