A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu), has died, health officials announced on Monday. The death was ...

Louisiana health authorities on Monday reported the first human death in the United States linked to bird flu, while noting the patient had underlying medical conditions and that general risks to the ...

The recent detection of a new strain of H5N1 bird flu in US dairy herds has raised alarms among scientists. A US Department of Agriculture report noted that the D1.1 genotype has a mutation that may ...

A patient with the first “severe case” of bird flu in the U.S. has died, according to a press release Monday from the Louisiana Department of Health. It’s the first human death from H5N1 in the ...

The recent death of a Louisiana resident due to the H5N1 bird flu virus marks the first confirmed human fatality linked to bird flu in the country. The patient, who was over 65 years old and had ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 27—ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating a human rabies death in a person over 65 years of age who ...

— The Minnesota Department of Health is investigating a human rabies death in a person over 65 years of age who had exposure to a bat in western Minnesota in July. This is Minnesota's fourth case of ...