As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...
The patient was infected after contact with domestic and wild birds, specifically a non-commercial backyard flock and wild ...
A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza, or H5N1, in ...
The case involved the D1.1 strain of H5N1, the same subtype that caused the severe condition of a 13-year-old girl in ...
The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...