The first case of severe bird flu has been confirmed in the US by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), raising worries about the health crisis deepening. The health agency confirmed that the patient has been hospitalised in Louisiana, but other details are yet to be known.
Partial viral genome data of the bird flu virus that infected the patient suggests that the virus belongs to the D1.1 genotype related to other D1.1 viruses recently detected in wild birds and poultry in the United States and in recent human cases in British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, as per a CDC release.
