The patient contracted the virus after exposure to both backyard poultry and wild birds, Louisiana health officials said.

A patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday.

The person who died was older than 65 and contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock ...

The Southwest Louisiana resident who had the nation’s first severe case of bird flu has died, health officials announced ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...