One person had died from the disease. In early January, a backyard flock keeper hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana became the first person in the United States to die of the disease after ...

A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu — the first U.S. human case reported in about nine months and the first ever involving the H5N5 strain, health officials said last week.

Bird flu hasn’t gone anywhere, and it’s still sickening Americans. Health officials in Washington have confirmed that a resident contracted a nasty bout of H5N5 avian influenza—the first known case of ...

After a Western Washington resident died of complications from a rare form of avian flu you may be wondering if you’re at risk of getting sick. An older adult from Grays Harbor County died Friday, Nov ...

Health officials in Washington state said Friday they have confirmed the first U.S. human case of bird flu since February, with a strain that has previously been reported in animals but never before ...

A Grays Harbor County resident has tested preliminarily positive for avian influenza in the first human case recorded in Washington state this year. The resident, an older adult with underlying health ...

Although bird flu infections in humans remain rare, this case marks a significant development in flu surveillance in the U.S.