Actions by a vaccine advisory panel picked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are putting Bill Cassidy’s reputation in a precarious ...

NEW YORK — The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported — a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms. State health officials announced the death on ...

The Louisiana Department of Health has reported the first human case of West Nile virus this mosquito season, with the ...

The case was reported in a person from Livingston Parish. The person was hospitalized due to complications from the infection.

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.

According to the Louisiana Department of Health, there were 57 cases in humans statewide in 2024. Three people died.

Since 2022, there have been 70 confirmed and probable human cases of bird flu in the U.S. One person in Louisiana, who was exposed to wild birds and a backyard flock, died.

RFK Jr.’s uncle once wrote a book called Profiles in Courage, consisting of short biographies of US senators who bucked their ...

Health officials in Louisiana said Monday that an individual has died from the H5N1 bird flu. The death is the first reported among humans in the United States related to the virus.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new vaccine advisers began their first meeting Wednesday under intense scrutiny ...

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