What's New. Newsweek has created a map showing which states have recorded the most human bird flu cases, after the first human case of severe bird flu was confirmed in Louisiana.. California ...

Less than a month after reporting its first human case of bird flu, California has confirmed that 16 people have now been infected with the disease, and a Newsweek map shows how the numbers ...

For months, bird flu was seemingly everywhere in the U.S.: news headlines reported the highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

The current outbreak of avian influenza among dairy cows in the U.S. began in February 2022. Since then, eleven human cases of bird flu have been confirmed.

Since 2022, bird flu in the U.S. has infected 168 dairy herds, 7 people who were exposed to poultry, 4 people who were in close contact with infected cattle, more than 100 million chickens and ...

The current bird flu outbreak in the United States, featuring primarily the H5N1 strain, was first detected in wild bird flocks in January 2022, and in commercial poultry operations and backyard ...

In humans, bird flu has so far spread to the eight states listed above. However, the H5N1 virus in America is far more widespread. The CDC says that as of December 17, H5N1 has infected 10,852 ...

Map showing duck farm and chicken farms connected by wind-borne spread of H5N1 avian influenza. Map ... More drawn by E. Marty from data reported in a study of an outbreak in the Czech Republic.

Are eggs safe to eat amid the current avian flu outbreak? Have people in the U.S. contracted bird flu? ... The CDC reported the United States’ first-ever human case of H5N1 in April 2022.

H5N1 Bird Flu Outbreak: Map Reveals Confirmed US Human Cases. Published Oct 29, 2024 at 1:39 PM EDT Updated Oct 30, 2024 at 4:26 AM EDT. By . Tom Howarth is a Newsweek reporter based in Bristol, U.K.