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.

Bobbi Pritt, a professor of laboratory medicine and pathology at Mayo Clinic, has revealed the conditions required for bird flu to pass from human to human after a recent death in the US

The Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge says the current H5N1 strain was detected in the latter half of 2024 and is asking visitors to report dead or sick birds.

Bird flu is suspected to have caused the death of multiple wild birds recovered across the state last week, New Jersey Fish and Wildlife announced. At least seven snow geese, two Canada geese, and two hawks have yielded presumptive positive results so far for avian influenza,

As The New York Times reported, a senior with underlying medical conditions was hospitalized and died from bird flu around the start of the new year. The older adult is believed to have contracted the disease from a backyard poultry flock and wild birds,

Two months shy of the fifth anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic, the US has recorded its first human death as a result of avian influenza H5N1 infection. The unidentified Louisiana man contracted the virus through contact with infected wild and domestic birds on his property

The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed the death of a person recently diagnosed with severe symptoms of H5N1 avian flu, making this the first death linked to this virus.