Between 2023 and 2024, Louisiana’s population grew by just under 10,000 people, with the estimates putting the total population at 4,597,740 as of mid-year. That’s a growth rate of 0.2%, slower than any other state that gained population in the past year.

A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 bird flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, the first such case in the United States.

"The Story of DeRidder goes something like this," the website states. "DeRidder was named for Ella de Ridder, the sister-in-law of a Dutch railroad financier. Her family originally came from the small town of Geldermalsen in the Netherlands, where she was one of 13 children."

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the United States' first serious case of H5N1 bird flu, following 60 milder cases this year.

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of the bird flu. It is the first known human H5N1 infection in the United States, according

The United States Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots partnered with Louisiana State Police for its annual Christmas Toy Drive at the Public Safety Center on Friday, Dec. 20.

Overall rates for sexually transmitted infections in the United States are slowing somewhat; however, Louisiana ranks at the top of the list for STI's among the states.

(CNN) — A patient in Louisiana has been hospitalized with a severe case of H5N1 bird flu, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, the first such case in the United States.

In a case first reported in Louisiana, a patient has now developed the first known case of bird flu so severe as to require hospitalization.

ATLANTA — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that a new human case of the H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been reported in Louisiana — the first in the state and, notably, the first severe case in the country, requiring hospitalization to treat the infected person.

It was two o'clock in the morning on Dec. 16, 1811, less than a week before Christmas, and many homesteaders new to the frontier in the Louisiana Purchase were fast asleep in the new American frontier.

A person in Louisiana became the first to be diagnosed with a severe case of the bird flu after possibly being exposed to sick and dead birds on their property, the Centers for Disease Control said on Wednesday.