There have been reports of bird flu cases throughout the U.S. and one confirmed case in Louisiana. Here's what the CDC says ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in a strain of the avian influenza virus H5N1, ...

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s ...

H5N1 usually spreads to people through contact with infected or dead birds, as with the Louisiana patient. Currently, there ...

A southwestern Louisiana resident has been hospitalized with the first presumptive human case of Bird Flu. Here's what to ...

The Health (LDH) announced on December 13 the detection of the first presumptive positive human case of highly pathogenic ...

Testing has confirmed a case of avian influenza in a backyard flock in Bossier Parish, Louisiana. The backyard flock owner ...

In a case first reported in Louisiana, a patient has now developed the first known case of bird flu so severe as to require ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the first case of "severe" avian influenza, commonly known as bird flu, less ...

A genetic analysis of the H5N1 bird flu in a Louisiana patient reveals potential mutations for human transmissibility, says ...

A person in Louisiana has the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S., health officials said Wednesday.

Federal health officials have attributed the deaths of birds in a “backyard flock” in Bossier Parish to the strain of avian ...