The Louisiana Department of Health said on Monday that a U.S. patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu had died, the country's first death from an outbreak of the virus that has sickened dozens of people and millions of poultry and cattle.

A patient in Louisiana has died of bird flu. Health authorities considered the case to be the first severe H5N1 infection in a U.S. resident.

The first Louisiana patient with bird flu has died, officials with the state health department said Monday. The death is the first U.S. H5N1-related human death, the agency said.

The Louisiana Department of Health reported that a 65-year-old man who was hospitalized with the bird flu (highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI) has died. It is the first reported human death in the U.

Louisiana health officials have confirmed the first U.S. death linked to highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1). The patient, a man over 65 years old with underlying medical conditions, passed away after being hospitalized with the virus.

Louisiana reported its first death in the US from bird flu. Local health officials stated that a patient who was admitted with a severe case of H5N1 avian flu passed away. The Louisiana Health Department confirmed the death.