Bird flu hasn’t gone anywhere, and it’s still sickening Americans. Health officials in Washington have confirmed that a ...

Washington state health officials confirmed Friday that a resident has contracted a rare strain of bird flu, marking the ...

The “severely ill” Washington man, infected with H5N5, an avian influenza virus, was hospitalized with a high fever, ...

The unidentified man was hospitalized with a high fever, confusion and respiratory distress earlier this month.

Health officials in Washington state said a resident has contracted bird flu, marking the first human case in the U.S. since ...

The Washington State Department of Health announced Nov. 14 that a state resident hospitalized earlier this month is the first human to have the H5N5 strain of bird flu. The virus was previously ...

H5N5 bird flu is a type of avian influenza commonly affecting poultry animals. This is the first reported human case of the ...

The Washington State Department of Health said this is the first time the H5N5 variant has been detected in a human.

HealthDay News — A Washington state resident has become the first person in the United States to test positive for a rare bird flu strain that has never before been found in humans. The older adult, ...

Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease professor at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, told Newsweek in an email on Saturday, “Infection with a H5N5 bird flu virus ...

Officials believe the person was infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu, which has not been previously seen in humans.