CDC confirms bird flu case in San Francisco child. What is bird flu?
Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses, according to the CDC. The virus mostly spreads between birds and ...
As bird flu affects more people and animals, CDC urges faster testing
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health-care workers treating patients ...
CDC urges faster testing to find human bird flu cases
The CDC on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu ...
Bird flu or seasonal sickness? Here's how the CDC plans to ramp up testing
A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of ...
US CDC recommends faster testing for bird flu in hospitalized patients
People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...
CDC urges hospitals to fast-track bird flu testing
Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...
CDC upgrades its advisory on bird flu. Will Moderna’s stock get a boost?
CDC officials say medical professionals are seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or ...
CDC urges doctors to speed subtyping of patients hospitalized with the flu to better track H5N1 infections
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...
CDC calls for testing hospitalized flu patients to determine whether they have bird flu
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...
Hospitals Should Test All Influenza Patients for Bird Flu, CDC Says
CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track ...
How deadly is bird flu in humans? What we know as US confirms 1st death
How deadly is the bird flu? The US has reported its first death from avian influenza, H5N1. Here's what to know about bird ...
CDC Suggests Quick Bird Flu Testing for Hospitalized Patients
People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Thursday, in an expansion of the agency’s efforts to tackle ...