As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up.The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to distinguish between seasonal flu and bird flu.

Local hospitals are now being urged by the CDC to be on the lookout for avian influenza among patients. When children are hospitalized with influenza at Children's Nebraska, they are now tested for avian flu.

The nationwide spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI, also known as avian or bird flu, has many in Illinois concerned about livestock,

As egg prices continue to soar across the country, there are new concerns about bird flu as a new strain was discovered at a duck farm.

On Thursday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed another case of avian influenza A(H5N1), or

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms.

Massachusetts, United States - A man died Monday in Louisiana after contracting the bird flu virus after being exposed to birds. By December the CDC had identified at least 65 human infections of avian flu in the United States,

Sign up for our Newsletters "We have not found any cases in the children who've needed to be hospitalized that have avian influenza, fortunately. But we are on the lookout for tha

Highly pathogenic' avian influenza can pose a dire risk to wild birds, as the North Fort Myers eagle nest shows, but most humans needn't worry about catching it.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) – 50 dead Snow Geese are being tested for Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) after being found in Geneva at the west side of Seneca Lake at Kashong Point Thursday. This follows just a day after the DEC confirmed that birds from Lakeshore Landing in Romulus tested positive for bird flu on

A backyard bird flock in Montgomery County have preliminarily tested positive for the H5N1 avian influenza, also known as the bird flu.