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Amid an ongoing outbreak of bird flu among poultry and dairy cows, the United States has recorded its first human death due the virus known as avian influenza A or H5N1. The Louisiana patient died ...
The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted ...
A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI, or bird flu), has died, health officials announced on Monday.. The death was ...
The yardstick for human mortality from H5N1 is the case-fatality rate (CFR); the ratio of the number of confirmed human deaths resulting from infection of H5N1 to the number of those confirmed cases of infection with the virus. For example, if there are 100 confirmed cases of a disease and 50 die as a consequence, then the CFR is 50%.
Though rare, humans can contract bird flu. Last week, the first human bird flu death was reported in Louisiana. Pet owners and animal keepers should be aware of the risks of bird flu and its symptoms.
Bird flu has claimed its first human death in the US. A Louisiana patient died from a severe case of the H5N1 avian influenza , state health officials reported on Monday.
On November 7, the CDC reported asymptomatic bird flu infection in 4 workers at dairy farms. The workers didn't recall ever being sick but had antibodies showing that they had been infected with bird flu. [98] On November 22, the CDC confirmed the first case of bird flu in a U.S. child, being the 55th case of bird flu in humans in the U.S.
Report dead or sick birds or animals to the USDA toll-free at 1-866-536-7593. (This story was updated to add new information.) This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: First human bird flu ...