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

The Centers for Disease Control issued a health alert calling for the immediate testing of patients hospitalized with ...

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

The latest CDC alert says testing for bird flu should move more quickly, ideally within 24 hours of a person’s hospital admission. “The system right now tells us what has already happened.

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

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is expanding its collection efforts of wild bird carcasses amid the highly ...

FRIDAY, Jan. 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care ...

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

The agency spokesperson clarified that this accelerated testing is not due to bird flu cases being missed, as the CDC noted in its press release that those hospitalized with influenza A "probably ...

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.

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