Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses, according to the CDC. The virus mostly spreads between birds and ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian ...

A child ill with fever and conjunctivitis in San Francisco tested positive for bird flu but had no known source of ...

People hospitalized for flu should be tested for bird flu within 24 hours, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

The CDC on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu ...

CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track ...

CDC officials say medical professionals are seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or ...

Any time a person catches H5N1, or bird flu, their infection is a chance for the virus to mutate in the wrong direction. When ...

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 ...

The CDC is monitoring developments closely because the United States is in the middle of flu season. With more patients ...

The CDC advises testing hospitalized flu patients for bird flu within 24 hours to prevent delays in identifying human ...