One year ago, a human infection of bird flu was reported in Texas. One year ago, the first bird flu infection in a human in the United States was reported in a Texas dairy worker, just weeks after ...

It’s the first ever confirmed instance of a severe bird flu infection in the United States and the first reported human case of bird flu in Louisiana. The patient was not infected via work at a ...

Health officials are alarmed by more than 50 confirmed human cases of a bird flu variant across seven states this year, with a new case confirmed this week in a California child without known ...

The CDC says the Louisiana man “had exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks”—marking the first human case tied to a backyard flock. The CDC said in a press release no person-to ...

The first human case of bird flu in Ohio was reported in a farm worker from Mercer County. There have been 68 human cases of bird flu in 11 states since January 1, 2024, including one death in ...

Is there a new strain of bird flu to be worried about? On Wednesday, the World Health Organization reported the first confirmed human case of the H5N2 type of bird flu in a 59-year-old man in ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified 46 human cases of bird flu since April. Getty Images H5 bird flu is widespread in wild birds worldwide and is causing outbreaks in ...

This was the first time the virus made the jump from a mammal to a human. Now, the number of people becoming infected with bird flu is ticking upward. On July 25, the US Centers for Disease ...