A ny time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction.

On Monday, Louisiana health officials announced that a person hospitalized last month with a severe case of avian influenza — ...

With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the ...

Cases of human metapneumovirus, or HMPV, a contagious virus that can lead to respiratory disease, is reportedly spiking in ...

How deadly is the bird flu? The US has reported its first death from avian influenza, H5N1. Here's what to know about bird ...

The risk to the general population from H5N1 bird flu remains low, a World Health Organization spokesperson said on Tuesday, ...

Louisiana has reported the first U.S. fatality from avian influenza. Most of the country’s human cases have been mild ...

New research led by La Jolla Institute for Immunology scientists on the H5N1 virus, or “bird flu,” suggests that many people ...

A person in Louisiana who was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu has died.

The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death ...

The Louisiana patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in the first death in the U.S. caused by the H5N1 virus ...

The death of a Louisiana resident and a severe infection involving a B.C. teen has experts worried about the emerging threat ...