The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic bird flu in southwest Louisiana had been hospitalized since mid-December.

Tests done by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department confirmed the disease was found in multiple ducks recovered at the shopping center.

New details about wild birds that died from the bird flu Flock of ducks were found at the Arboretum Shopping Center AUSTIN, Texas - New details were released about a flock of ducks that died from the bird flu in Northwest Austin.