A Louisiana resident has died from the H5N1 bird flu virus, marking the first U.S. death from the disease. The case highlights the potential severity of the virus and the need for continued prevention efforts.
A Louisiana resident infected with the H5N1 bird flu virus has died, marking the first U.S. death from the disease. The patient, who was older than 65 and had preexisting conditions, is believed to have handled infected non-commercial and wild birds. The person's name and gender were not disclosed. This news confirms what many experts have feared: that if left to spread unabated, the disease has the potential to cause severe illness and death.
Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University, stated, 'This is an unfortunate reminder that H5N1 retains the ability to cause severe illness and death. It would be wrong to be reassured by the fact that the patient had underlying health conditions.' Nuzzo noted that a child in Canada was also critically ill with the virus but ultimately survived. However, the extensive medical treatment the child received — daily blood transfusions, intubation, and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation — highlights the extraordinary severity of the disease the virus can cause. 'For this reason, we must treat all infections seriously, and work harder to prevent them,' Nuzzo said. Before the H5N1 bird flu virus arrived in North America in 2021, the disease was recognized as having the potential to cause severe disease and death. H5N1 was first identified in wild geese in China in 1996 and soon spread among birds in Asia, jumping to people on hundreds of occasions. More than half of these known infections were fatal. But since the outbreak in U.S. dairy herds and poultry, the vast majority of cases have been mild — with most patients and health providers reporting the most common symptoms as conjunctivitis and mild respiratory distress
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