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

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

San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing ...

Avian influenza, commonly termed “bird flu”, is caused by the avian influenza virus A. This virus is usually found in wild ...

The Hawai‘i Department of Health, State Laboratories Division has detected H5 avian influenza (bird flu) at very low levels ...

A detection in a sample collected on Dec. 11 was so low that it wasn’t considered a positive. Samples collected on Dec. 18 ...

The Hawaii Department of Health detected very low levels of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) in samples from the Lihue ...

As avian flu outbreaks continue to hit US poultry farm s and backyard flocks, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal ...

A British Columbia doctor who treated a 13-year-old avian flu patient says the case has made him concerned about the ...

A recent advisory recommends performing a second avian flu test within 24 hours of a ... In suspected cases, the CDC advises initiating antiviral treatments without waiting for test results.

The advisory reflects increasing concern about the widening outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza ... seasonal influenza or bird flu should also be started on the antiviral treatment Tamiflu as soon ...