California officials have declared a state of emergency over the spread of bird flu, tearing through dairy cows in that state and causing sporadic illnesses in people in the United States. That raises ...
At baseline, bird flu is usually severe in humans. Of the 863 reported H5N1 bird flu cases reported worldwide between 2003 and 2021, 456 ended in death, according to data from the World Health ...
A person hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana is the first "severe" human H5N1 case in the U.S., the CDC says. What to know about bird flu symptoms in humans.