A crawfish farmer works his ponds near Abbeville. The crawfish industry in south Louisiana is growing concerned by a deadly virus that threatens the crop. (Photo by David Grunfeld, The Times-Picayune ...

New federal data released Friday shows the percentage of medical visits for flu symptoms in Louisiana climbed to 3.9% in the ...

A genetic analysis of samples from the patient in Louisiana recently hospitalized with the country's first severe case of H5N1 bird flu show the virus likely mutated in the patient to become ...

NEW ORLEANS — In your Breakdown: Louisiana has its first confirmed case of West Nile Virus this year, in a person who was hospitalized in Livingston Parish. But just how common is it in our state?

LOUISIANA (KLFY) — Louisiana currently has the highest number of respiratory virus cases in the country. News 10 reached out to multiple medical professionals to see how and why the numbers are what ...

SWLA, La. (KPLC) - Louisiana has had its first confirmed human case of the West Nile Virus this year. We don’t know much about the patients, but we do know they are from Livingston Parish, and they ...

FILE - This undated electron microscopic image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows two Influenza A (H5N1) virions, a type of bird flu virus. (Cynthia Goldsmith, Jackie ...

A nasty, highly contagious virus is spreading across the country ahead of the holiday season — and it’s not the flu or Covid.