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 ...

The wildfire in New Jersey had ravaged more than 15,000 acres and was just 50% contained as of Thursday night.

Last week, a judge decided to temporarily block a federal order that would have terminated $31 million in grant funding to the Rhode Island Department of Health. The next hearing on the order is set ...