The patient, aged over 65, had been hospitalized in the southern state since at least mid-December, when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced it as the country's first serious case of human infection from the H5N1 virus.
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The news comes just days after the federal government awarded an additional $306 million to bolster H5N1 surveillance programs and research, amid some criticism for President Joe Biden's administration over its response to the simmering issue.
“While the risk to humans remains low, we are always preparing for any possible scenario that could arise,“ Health Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement announcing the funding on Friday.
The CDC said in December that genetic sequencing of the H5N1 virus from the Louisiana patient was different from the version detected in many dairy herds around the country.
However, such mutations are not the only thing that could make the virus more contagious or transmissible between humans, according to researchers interviewed by AFP.
Since the beginning the 2024, the CDC has recorded 66 cases of bird flu in humans in the United States.
The World Health Organization has meanwhile recorded over 950 cases since 2003 in 24 countries, including a large number in China and Vietnam.
If symptoms do develop, it said to alert medical providers to the possibility of bird flu exposure, adding: “Stay home and away from others while you have symptoms.”
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