The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

Doctors should use infection control measures if a hospitalized patient has suspected, probable, or confirmed H5N1, putting ...

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

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

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

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed another human H5N1 avian flu case -- otherwise kno ...

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

Meanwhile, the agency urges faster testing for avian influenza A(H5N1) in hospitalized patients with suspected influenza.

The first human death caused by H5N1 in the U.S. was reported in Louisiana on Jan. 6. Here's what to know about bird flu.

It also recommends asking about recent close contact with a symptomatic person with a possible or confirmed case of H5N1. Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, director of CDC's National Center for ...

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...