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Public health experts are urging vigilance amid recent reports of severe bird flu cases in two North American patients.

Previous seasonal flu infections and vaccinations may protect us against infection from the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu outbreak.

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The CDC said it’s working on additional genomic sequencing of samples from the patient, who is from southwestern Louisiana, and the investigation into the patient’s exposure is still underway.

A patient was hospitalized with a severe case of bird flu in Louisiana, the CDC said. This case is the first confirmed instance of a severe human infection linked to the H5N1 virus. The CDC said ...

The patient was hospitalized in Louisiana, the health agency said. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first case of severe bird flu in the United States.

The Louisiana Health Department announced over ... The case was confirmed by the CDC on Friday. In a briefing Wednesday, Demetre Daskalakis, a top CDC official, said preliminary genetic sequencing ...