Patient hospitalized after first human case of bird flu linked to rare strain of virus

One person had died from the disease. In early January, a backyard flock keeper hospitalized with bird flu in Louisiana ...

First-ever human case of rare bird flu strain confirmed in western US

The country's first-ever H5N5 bird flu case has been confirmed in Washington State, where a resident is hospitalized with a ...

First human case of rare bird flu reported in Washington state. Are you at risk?

After a Western Washington resident became the first human to contract a rare form of avian flu, you may be wondering if ...

First suspected human case of avian influenza reported in Washington this year

GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY, Wash. — A Grays Harbor County resident tested preliminarily positive for avian influenza — the first ...

Could H5N5 Strain Of Bird Flu Be The Next Pandemic? Experts Answer

Health officials in the United States confirmed a human case of bird flu with a rare strain, H5N5, that had previously only been reported in animals and never in a human. The patient is an older adult ...
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After a summer respite, bird flu is back

It was a quiet summer for bird flu: Egg prices fell a bit, fewer sick poultry flocks were culled on farms, and officials took a breath. “It was lovely,” said Shauna Voss, the assistant director of the ...
OPB

Bird flu surges among poultry amid a scaled back federal response

MATTHEW HATCHER/AFP / AFP via Getty Images As birds fly south for the winter, they’re carrying with them some unwelcome cargo: the H5N1 virus, or bird flu. In the past 30 days, the virus has struck 66 ...

Rare Bird Flu Strain Detected in Washington State Resident

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, told Newsweek in an email on Saturday, “Infection with a H5N5 bird flu virus ...