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The patient had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), or H5N1, in Louisiana.

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The NCDC also reported 10 deaths, resulting in a Case Fatality Rate (CFR) of 18.5%, higher than the CFR of 11.3% recorded in the same period in 2024. According to the Lassa fever situation report ...

For example, severe cases to date have been associated only with the wild-bird clade, D1.1. Historically, H5N1 infection in Southeast Asia and Egypt has been associated with a case fatality rate ...

In some outbreaks, the fatality rates have been as high as 50% ... something I'm worrying about," Meyers said in June after the first case in a human in Texas. "I'm keeping on high alert.

The bird flu, also known as avian influenza and H5N1, was implicated in the first human death from the infectious disease on ...