The following has been provided by LDH: The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) has detected the first presumptive positive human case of highly ... be infected with bird flu viruses.

There have been 70 reported human cases of the bird flu in the U.S., with one confirmed death, according to the CDC. The first reported death from bird flu in the U.S. was a patient in Louisiana ...

A man in Louisiana has become the first ... while a few months ago a man in Mexico became the first recorded human fatality linked to the H5N2 strain of bird flu. The developments reinforce ...

A person in Louisiana has contracted the nation's first severe case of bird flu ... The World Health Organization has confirmed a human bird flu case in India – a 4-year-old who was infected ...