Bird Flu Patient in Louisiana Becomes First Human Death in Current H5N1 Outbreak
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 in Mexico back in May 2024 in a patient with no known exposure to farm animals. The case, much like the patient in Louisiana, was in a person with other underlying conditions, though it’s not clear what those may have been.
A variant of the virus caused disease in people in 1997, when there was a small but deadly outbreak in Hong Kong. Eighteen ...
The first known death from a bird flu virus in the US has sparked fears about another pandemic, yet the overall risk to the ...
Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) viruses have caused widespread infections in dairy cows and poultry in the United ...
In light of the ongoing global spread of the H5N1 avian influenza, U.S. public health experts are reassured that current ...
Bird flu can be contracted from eggs but the risk to Americans is very low, according to a risk assessment from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Highly pathogenic avian influenza A ...
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In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were ...
More should be done to control the spread of bird flu among animals to avoid more cases in humans, the World Organisation for ...
Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.
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