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Louisiana health officials are announcing the nation's first human death due to the bird flu.
The patient was hospitalized with H5N1 after being exposed to a combination of wild birds and a non-commercial backyard flock.
Officials haven't released the identity of the patient, who was over age 65 and reportedly had underlying medical conditions.
So far there's no evidence of person-to-person transmission of the disease, and the patient is still the only human case of the bird flu in Louisiana.
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