A resident of southwest Louisiana has died from bird flu, marking the first death in the U.S. from the disease amid an ongoing outbreak.
The patient, a person over 65 with underlying health conditions, contracted the illness through exposure to a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds.
An extensive public health investigation found no other human cases or evidence of human-to-human spread of H5N1, although more than 60 people have been infected.
Jennifer Nuzzo from Brown University cautioned, 'I am not counting on future infections all being mild,' highlighting the unpredictability of the virus's severity.
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