The CDC is calling for expanded testing of bird flu after a child in California tested positive for the virus despite no ...

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

Hospitals should expand and speed up testing of people hospitalised with influenza to see if they are suffering from bird flu ...

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.

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

The advisory comes amid concerns that cases of H5N1 avian influenza will sicken more people in the United States.

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

The CDC announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to ...

In an abundance of caution, the CDC last week advised hospitals and labs to do faster flu testing to help identify possible bird flu cases hiding in the flock of rising flu diagnoses.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...

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

A farm in the Long Island area of New York has been forced to euthanize over 100,000 ducks after a bird flu outbreak.