The patient was hospitalized in Louisiana, the health agency said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States.

As bird flu infections rise in dairy cattle and chickens, human cases are ticking up too, leaving many people to wonder whether they might be at risk from this recently arrived virus. Bird flu ...

Bird flu, or avian influenza, is a respiratory virus that primarily affects birds. Health authorities have been preparing a round of vaccinations to prevent a major outbreak. However, cases have ...

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A person hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana is the first "severe" human H5N1 case in the U.S., the CDC says. What to know about bird flu symptoms in humans.

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“It reminds us that in young people, this is a virus that can progress and cause quite severe illness,” Henry noted. Could bird flu cause the next pandemic? Here's what to know about raw milk ...

It helps us understand where the potential exposures might be,” said Henry, adding the genome is not a direct match, which indicates there was likely an intermediary, either another bird or ...

But they’re also watching another virus this winter: H5N1 avian influenza, or bird flu. U.S. health agencies say that the virus currently poses a low risk to the general public, even though it ...

B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said the teen infected with ... with a human case of avian influenza — also known as bird flu — caused by influenza A(H5N1) virus in Canada.