A genetic analysis suggests the bird flu virus mutated inside a Louisiana patient who contracted the nation’s first severe case of the illness, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said ...

The agency, in its latest update released Thursday, said the mutations were not found in samples taken from wild birds, suggesting the virus changed over the course of the patient’s infection.

The Kentucky Department for Public Health reports that a northern Kentucky resident died from rabies on Friday.

Kentucky health officials on Friday announced a human death from rabies in a Northern Kentucky resident. The source of the ...