Guam Memorial Hospital Administrator Lilian Perez-Posadas said there are no suspected cases of norovirus or H5N1 infections on the island. “If the [Emergency Room] doctor on duty suspects a ...

For the first time, birds in a backyard flock in Wayne County have been sickened by the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus, the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development ...

State officials said they've discovered the first case of the highly infectious H5N1 bird flu virus in a backyard flock in Wayne County. In a press release issued Thursday, the Michigan Department ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...

After a year of rising bird flu cases among people in the United States, researchers are keeping a watchful eye on the H5N1 virus to slow further spread. Since early 2024, the country has recorded ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue to ...

It also recommends asking about recent close contact with a symptomatic person with a possible or confirmed case of H5N1. Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, director of CDC's National Center for ...

The finding highlights a key concern about the H5N1 strains of bird flu currently circulating in the U.S.: the speed at which the virus can mutate when introduced to a new host. Naturally found in ...

Cases of the H5N1 avian flu have been spreading in animals, with the first human death recently reported. The 65-year-old man from Louisiana had underlying health conditions as well as exposure to ...

But since 2003, H5N1 bird flu has infected around 950 people around the world, nearly half of whom died. Post-mortems found victims suffered from multiple organ failure, bleeding in the lungs ...