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 CDC announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to distinguish between seasonal flu and bird flu.

The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.

CDC confirmed a new human case of H5N1 in California. The recent case involves a child from San Francisco. CDC data reveals ...

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

Amid a deluge of executive actions, the Trump administration has asked federal health agencies to pause external ...

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

The threat of bird flu in humans remains low unless they are dealing closely with cattle, poultry or wild birds.

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

Although it says the risk of bird flu contagion to the public remains low, with no evidence of human-to-human transmission, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling on hospitals to ...

Mutations in one of the first human-isolated strains of H5N1 bird flu in the US were identified by the Texas Biomedical ...