The CDC reported the United States has had it's first bird flu death in louisiana.... but are there any concerns here locally ...

We’re monitoring the situation very, very closely. We’ve never seen this many infections of non-bird species as we have in the U.S.," Johns Hopkins virologist Andrew Pekosz said.

MONROE, La. (KNOE) - We’re learning more about the patient who died from bird flu in Southwest Louisiana. Mandy Gaither has the update in this week‘s Health Minute, sponsored by St. Francis Health.

Sam Jarvis with Johnson County Public Health said the good news: there’s so far been no human-to-human transmission of the virus known as H5N1. But they’re continuing to monitor the situation closely.

The virus has affected 344,100 birds in the last month at Michigan commercial farms on the west side of the state.

The patient in Louisiana was older than 65 and was reported to have had underlying medical conditions, health officials said.

A Louisiana patient is the first person in the United States to die as a result of H5N1 infection. One expert likens what happens next to Russian roulette.

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