After a Western Washington resident became the first human to contract a rare form of avian flu, you may be wondering if ...

A Washington state resident has tested positive for bird flu — the first U.S. human case reported in about nine months and the first ever involving the H5N5 strain, health officials said last week.

Avian flu has been confirmed in dead vultures in Tazewell, Washington and Wythe counties. The state is awaiting tests on other vultures elsewhere in Southwest Virginia.

H5N5 bird flu, recently detected in a US patient, can cause symptoms ranging from mild fever and cough to severe respiratory ...