What you need to know about bird flu. Public health experts are closely watching avian influenza, which has affected chickens ...

Patients hospitalized with flu should be tested for H5N1 bird flu within 24 hours, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, upgrading its recent recommendation. Before now ...

principal deputy director at CDC said it's important to accelerate the identification of influenza A virus subtyping so that the results are not just useful for retrospective surveillance ...

Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses, according to the CDC. The virus mostly spreads between birds and dairy cows, but there have been 67 human cases of bird flu nationwide ...

The CDC last week said it would rebuild a bird flu vaccine stockpile for poultry. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses CDC, have repeatedly met with the ...

The CDC recommends several measures to curb the spread of bird flu: Avoid direct contact with wild birds and other animals infected with or suspected to be infected with avian influenza A viruses.

The CDC reports the virus was detected on Dec ... “The biggest concern is if the avian influenza virus, were to mix with a human virus and thus make it easier to not only infect humans but ...

Wastewater levels of influenza are high nationwide for the week ending Jan 4, the CDC's wastewater monitoring systems reported. Respiratory viruses can spread quickly in winter months, as more ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect may have bird flu. Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare ...