The patient contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds, the Louisiana Health Department said. In Rhode Island, the DEM and the state ...

Were that to happen, Chan said, Rhode Island is in a stronger position to respond to an H5N1 outbreak than it was to COVID-19. “The good news about influenza is that even though H5N1 is a new ...

Last week, a judge decided to temporarily block a federal order that would have terminated $31 million in grant funding to ...

PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island hasn't had any human cases of bird flu, and the H5N1 avian influenza hasn't been detected in any commercial bird flocks here. However, the highly pathogenic virus has ...