Hospitals should expand and speed up testing of people hospitalised with influenza to see if they are suffering from bird flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The ongoing bird flu outbreak carries the potential of turning into a pandemic, which is why experts say pausing milk testing ...

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The CDC also has a testing van from the agency's Avian Flu Influenza Area Surveillance Testing, or AFAST project, offering testing at some of the sites. "Funding for the gift cards comes out of ...

Public health experts share concerns that the H5N1 bird flu outbreak could turn into a pandemic. What to know after Louisiana ...

“That’s when everyone went, ‘Whoa, let’s get on calls with the CDC and the USDA ... to directly test dairy products. The general public doesn’t see bird flu as a threat and ...

The US should worry about the avian flu 'because it could be another pandemic', an infectious diseases expert said.

Virologists across the globe are raising alarms over the spread of the H5N1 avian flu virus, which is now infecting not just ...

Recently, there have been several human cases of bird flu within U.S. dairy and poultry workers. Currently, the CDC is utilizing flu surveillance systems to monitor avian influenza in people.