But, fatalities are not uncommon with H5N1 infections overall. According to data collected by the WHO, there have been 954 documented cases between 2003 and 2024. Of those, 464 were fatal, leading to ...

However, the virus isn’t limited to birds. It can spread to other animals and to humans. The H5N1 bird flu isn’t new. The CDC says the virus was first identified in Southern China in domestic ...

Just hours after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ... H5N1 is one of the more common bird flu strains to make the jump from birds to humans. The infected birds spread the ...

The patient is in Louisiana and was exposed to backyard flocks sick with H5N1. According to information from the CDC, infected birds spread bird flu through their spit, snot and poop. Other ...

On Friday, the CDC confirmed a person from Louisiana had avian influenza A virus, H5N1 ... flu, according to the CDC. Bird flu, also known as avian influenza, is a virus that can sometimes ...

The finding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the child, who lives in California, deepened the mystery about the spread of H5N1 ... CDC said. Initial testing did not detect ...

Should it spread from person to person, the level of public health concern would significantly increase. "CDC's overall assessment of the immediate risk to the public's health from H5N1 bird flu ...

Genomic data showed the Louisiana patient was infected with a version of the virus recently found to be spreading ... (H5N1/bird flu) virus particles (rod-shaped). Note: Layout incorporates two ...

So far, no person-to-person spread of H5N1 bird flu has been detected. The CDC says the immediate risk to the public’s health remains low, but those with work or recreational exposure to ...

The CDC has declared the first “severe” case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S., according to a press release published Wednesday. The good news? The person who contracted the virus appears to have ...