An older person in Louisiana exposed to bird flu from a backyard flock is now hospitalized with a "severe" case of avian influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

Just as the 2024 Carnival season is getting started, Louisiana hospitals are overwhelmed with flu and COVID-19 patients and cases are still rising, health officials say.

A Louisiana patient who had been hospitalized with bird flu has died of the disease, the Louisiana Department of Public Health reported Monday.. The patient, the first in the U.S. to die from bird ...

LOUISIANA, USA — Louisiana is having one of the worst flu seasons of any state. Friday afternoon, the Louisiana Health Department released its latest weekly flu report. It shows about 14% of ...

The Louisiana patient’s death does not change the overall assessment by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the immediate risk to the public’s health from H5N1 bird flu, which ...

Louisiana, a state hit hard by the flu virus, is on track to having some 1,000 flu-related deaths this season, medical officials said. Dr. Raoult Ratard, Louisiana’s epidemiologist, told The ...

Louisiana currently ranks a level 10 out of 13 for flu activity overall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Only Washington, D.C. is also in that category.

First U.S. bird flu death reported in Louisiana patient, officials say. The patient, who was older than 65 and had underlying medical conditions, was hospitalized weeks ago in critical condition ...

A Louisiana resident has died after being hospitalized with bird flu, the state's health department announced Monday, marking the first U.S. death from the H5N1 virus.

As of Friday, there were 66 confirmed human cases of bird flu, including the Louisiana case, according to the CDC. Of those, 37 were in California alone, 11 in Washington and 10 in Colorado.