The Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced the presence of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza in a non ...

The patient contracted H5N1 after exposure to a combination of a non-commercial backyard flock and wild birds, the Louisiana Health Department said. In Rhode Island, the DEM and the state ...

Were that to happen, Chan said, Rhode Island is in a stronger position to respond to an H5N1 outbreak than it was to COVID-19. “The good news about influenza is that even though H5N1 is a new ...

The first case was announced in Rhode Island on March 1 ... if we had a bird flu pandemic," said Mermel, talking about H5N1. "So when people have asked me over the years what keeps me up at ...