Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

Bird flu is continuing to spread in animals across the U.S. Here's what you need to know about the current situation.

The patient in Louisiana was infected with the H5N1 strain of avian influenza, which is a virus that can infect both birds and mammals. The virus in this particular patient revealed genetic ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza is continuing to be monitored ... There have been 70 confirmed human cases and one death, in Louisiana from a poultry worker, in the U.S. and more than 30 ...

Experts say the short-term risk of a pandemic is low, but the recent appearance in mammals of the potentially dangerous avian influenza A ... an elderly man in Louisiana with underlying medical ...

Since then, at least 70 people have fallen ill and at least one death was recorded in Louisiana ... and current situation. Bird flu in the U.S. Bird flu, or avian influenza, is an infectious ...

In the past three years, outbreaks of bird flu, formally called highly pathogenic avian influenza ... when an elderly resident of Louisiana became the first human to die of H5N1 bird flu in ...

A person in Louisiana has contracted the nation's first ... case in India – a 4-year-old who was infected with the H9N2 avian flu virus. A bird flu outbreak is affecting several dairy herds ...