Leon Guerrero noted that when patients visit clinics, most have mild viral infections, such as the flu, respiratory syncytial virus ... with severe avian influenza A (H5N1) illness in Louisiana.

Flu, or influenza ... the bird flu virus by eating cooked chicken, turkey, or duck, as high temperatures kill the virus. The CDC has created two candidate vaccines for the H5N1 bird flu and ...

Because the virus evolves each year, annual vaccination is recommended to protect people at risk of developing severe influenza, who are also those at risk of severe COVID-19 infection.

They worry that the H5N1 virus has the potential to set off another human pandemic. “You’ve got something that’s clearly evolving here in the United States,” said Dr. Cameron Wolfe ...

For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

State officials said they've discovered the first case of the highly infectious H5N1 ... with avian influenza remains low and MDARD said no birds or bird products infected with the virus will ...

the most recent case of High Path Avian Influenza was reported in a Hyde County egg-laying operation on Jan. 8. The first human death reported was in Louisiana. So far, no human cases of H5N1 have ...

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...

The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses amid high ... bird flu since April, as the virus has circulated among poultry flocks ...