A genetic analysis had suggested the bird flu virus had mutated inside the patient, which could have led to the more severe illness.

The first bird-flu related death has been reported in the US, according to the Louisiana department of health, where the ...

Reports of the bird flu were detected in April in a farm in Texas. Since then, the dominant strain — H5N1 — was later detected in the first-confirmed human case in the United States. That person has ...

Explore the implications of the first human death from H5N1 bird flu in the US and what it means for public health.

The United States has announced its first death of a person infected with bird flu after a Louisiana man who was hospitalized last month succumbed to the illness.

A Louisiana resident has died after being hospitalized with bird flu in December of last year, marking the first known ...

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.

The first person has died of bird flu in the United States, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed on Monday. The patient, who was exposed to non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds, was ...

A patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday.

But Tulare County, and most other locales from Bakersfield to Fresno, has a notable lack of testing, or surveillance, of the ...

Louisiana health authorities on Monday reported the first human death in the United States linked to bird flu, while noting ...

A person in Louisiana who became severely ill with a bird flu virus known as H5N1 in December has passed away from the ...