BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The Louisiana Department of Health confirmed the hypothermia death of a 65-year-old man Thursday afternoon. State health officials said the coroner confirmed the Rapides Parish’s man death as winter weather-related.

The Louisiana Department of Health has confirmed the first cold weather death of the year. According to the health department, a Rapides Parish man died from hypothermia. The man was 65-years-old.

The first patient hospitalized with avian influenza in the United States has died in Louisiana, the state's department of health announced Monday.

The case in Louisiana is the first human death from bird flu in the U.S. during this current outbreak, but there was a death in Mexico back in May 2024 in a patient with no known exposure to farm animals. The case, much like the patient in Louisiana, was in a person with other underlying conditions, though it’s not clear what those may have been.

The first Louisiana patient with bird flu has died, officials with the state health department said Monday. The death is the first U.S. H5N1-related human death, the agency said.

In its announcement this week of the first human death from bird flu in the United States, health officials in Louisiana were quick to note that the patient was over age 65 and “reported to have underlying medical conditions.

The LDH announced Monday that a man over the age of 65 died from Bird Flu, making this the first case of death in the US. LSU Health experts weigh in on how this can raise a little concern over the spread of the virus.

The United States has reported its first human death from H5N1 bird flu, marking a somber moment in the ongoing outbreak of the virus. The Louisiana Department of Health announced in a statement on Monday that a patient over the age of 65,

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