During a call with U.S. doctors this month, one CDC official noted that there is a seasonality to bird flu: Cases peak in the ...

Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses were found in 38 people in CA from Sept. 30 to Dec. 24, 2024, including the first pediatric case in the US.

For critically ill patients, collection and testing of lower respiratory tract specimens also may lead to diagnosis of bird flu virus infection. However, for some patients who are no longer very ...

It was years before we had these effective tools and could properly apply them in real time to real patients. Today, the same problem exists in animals for H5N1 bird flu, where the virus spreads ...

So far, the outbreak has affected nearly 1000 dairy cow herds and resulted in more than 70 human cases, including the first confirmed death.

The first reported death from bird flu in the U.S. was a patient in Louisiana who had been exposed to infected sick and dead birds in backyard flocks, according to the American Hospital Association.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), since 2003, there have been 954 confirmed human cases of bird flu, of which around half of the patients have died. Now there are increasing concerns ...

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Dairy milk testing, wastewater type testing, and routine bird surveillance are a few methods the agency is using to monitor the virus closely. The agency is also running tests on hospitalized patients ...