The first U.S. fatality from bird flu has been recorded in Louisiana.
The first U.S. bird flu death has been reported — a person in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with severe respiratory symptoms. Health officials have said the person was older than 65, had underlying medical problems and had been in contact with sick and dead birds in a backyard flock. They also said a genetic analysisin the U.S., but previous illnesses have been mild and most have been detected among farmworkers exposed to sick poultry or dairy cows.
In two cases — and adult in Missouri and a child in California — health officials have not determined how they caught i
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