Here’s what to know about the United States’ first confirmed severe case of H5N1 avian influenza—and how to protect yourself.

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s infection.

The CDC recently reported findings from an analysis of specimens collected from the patient in Louisiana who became severely ill from H5N1 avian flu, and found genetic mutations that, according to ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the H5N1 bird flu virus that may increase ...

Although human infections in the United States have been rare, according to the CDC, bird flu has infected 60 people since April. Bird flu is a disease caused by a family of flu viruses primarily ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Fewer Americans are dying from drug overdoses according to new numbers from the CDC. The White House is taking credit for the promising decline. New data from the CDC ...

It's been an explosive year for the highly contagious bacterial infection across the country, according to the CDC. In the week ending Dec. 7 — the most recent data available — the U.S. had ...

The department is coordinating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the epidemiologic ... which are suspected to have been infected with H5N1. H5N1 is a type of influenza ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A resident of Southwest Louisiana is currently hospitalized with a case of H5N1, the Louisiana Department of Health confirmed. H5N1, or highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

The CDC has monitored widespread outbreaks of the current H5N1 strain in poultry farms, dairy farms and wild birds since 2022, with about 122.8 million poultry, 832 herds of dairy cattle and 10,700 ...