With reports of the first human death from bird flu in the US, some Americans are feeling an uncomfortable flashback to the early days of Covid-19, when infectious disease experts were talking about a new virus that was sending people to the hospital with respiratory infections.

H5N1 - has led to the first known casualty. While there is no known cure, the CDC does recommend methods to protect yourself.

Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency on in response to the bird flu outbreak affecting dairy herds. Find out more about the rising cases, its symptoms, and other details below.

Bird flu, also known as avian influenza or H5N1, has infected more than 130 million birds over the past two years as it threatened commercial bird operations and recently led to the first human death in the United States.

The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death in Mexico back in May 2024 in a patient with no known exposure to farm animals. The case, much like the patient in Louisiana, was in a person with other underlying conditions, though it’s not clear what those may have been.

A person hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu has died, marking the first fatality linked to the currently circulating infection in the US. Human-to-human spread has not been detected, so what's the real risk?

A US man aged 66 has died after battling a bird flu infection for almost three weeks, the country’s apex health body, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), has reported. The CDC announcement read: "CDC is saddened by Louisiana's report that a person previously hospitalised with severe avian influenza A (H5N1) illness (‘H5N1 bird flu’) has passed away.

Maryland's second case of the H5N1 bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in Queen Anne's County, according to the Maryland Department of Agriculture.