The only other human case of bird flu in the U.S. occurred in 2022 and may not have caused any illness, with the CDC stating that the "detection may have been the result of contamination of the nasal ...

With 66 human cases and one death from bird flu in the current outbreak, there are several ways Americans could become sick.

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

The Louisiana Department of Health stated that the patient had underlying medical conditions and died while undergoing ...

Though H5N1 has been circulating nationwide in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals since 2022, you may have only been ...

A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the first severe case of the ...

The virus in the first severe human bird flu case in the U.S. was found to have mutated. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

The first 'severe' human case of bird flu has many around the country concerned, but those in New Jersey may not need to feel too alarmed as no human cases have been reported in the Garden State ...

Bird flu infections are rare in people ... 1999 – Two children in Hong Kong are infected by the H9N2 strain. February 2003 – Eighty-four people in the Netherlands are affected by the H7N7 ...

California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, which is tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the U.S. That ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state of emergency declaration on Wednesday due to bird flu has raised questions about the H5N1 virus, including how it spreads. There are 61 confirmed human cases of bird ...