Backyard chicken enthusiasts are keeping an eye on alerts from the state’s health and agricultural departments after a person died in Louisiana from highly pathogenic avian influenza.

The virus impacts milk production and poses significant risks to other bird species, particularly domestic poultry as well as some mammals. The CDC has also confirmed mild cases in humans, and a fatal one in Louisiana in January 2025.

WATERFORD, Mich. (FOX 2) - One man is being tested after being exposed to Bird Flu from infected chickens in Waterford. A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was confirmed on Thursday, and was detected in a backyard flock.It is the second case of HPAI in Oakland County since the virus was first detected in Michigan back in 2022.

One person is in voluntary isolation, and 10 others are being monitored after coming into contact with animals infected with Avian Influenza at a farm at Hess-Hathaway Park in Oakland County.

Due to ongoing sporadic H5N1 avian flu infections and brisk levels of seasonal flu activity, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today urged healthcare providers to subtype all influenza A specimens in hospitalized patients, especially those in the intensive care unit (ICU), as soon as possible.

more than 133 million poultry countrywide have been impacted by avian influenza, 900-plus dairy herds and 66 people, two of whom live in Michigan. “The cases that we had were very mild,” said ...

Mutations in one of the first human-isolated strains of H5N1 bird flu in the US were identified by the Texas Biomedical Research Institute.

Cases of respiratory illness are high in Michigan and are expected to rise in the next few weeks, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

In addition to the isolation measures, birds were killed to prevent the highly-contagious virus from spreading, officials said.

Although it says the risk of bird flu contagion to the public remains low, with no evidence of human-to-human transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling on hospitals to test flu