Avian influenza A (H5N1) has mutated, so the symptoms of bird flu could change as more people get sick in 2025.

This is usually triggered by symptoms — like red eyes for H5N1 or a history of having ... Health reported a presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu in a child, which the CDC hasn't confirmed yet. The ...

In an abundance of caution, the CDC last week advised hospitals and labs to do faster flu testing to help identify possible ...

The patient contracted ... respiratory symptoms or pink eye, TODAY.com previously reported. In August, a person in Missouri was hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu and recovered after being treated ...

The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 ...

A patient who'd been hospitalized ... to happen with this particular flu.” Human infection with bird flu can happen when the virus gets into a person’s eyes, nose or mouth, or is inhaled ...

In people, the main route of infection seems to be through the eyes; conjunctivitis ... becoming the first death in the US from bird flu. Both of these patients had the D1.1 strain of the virus ...