Respiratory illnesses, including COVID-19, influenza, and RSV, are surging across the United States, with healthcare systems ...

A California man whose two cats died after drinking raw milk recalled for bird flu risk says he meant to keep his beloved ...

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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to distinguish between ...

The flu vaccine is generally about 40% effective at completely preventing influenza, according to Blumberg. The flu vaccine ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are hospitalized with the flu for H5N1 bird flu. Health care workers in ...

Hospitals should expand and speed up testing of people hospitalised with influenza to see if they are suffering from bird flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated ...

Health care workers in hospitals are urged to perform additional testing on patients hospitalized with influenza A — ideally within 24 hours of admission — to determine whether they have bird flu, ...

“What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at CDC ... national influenza surveillance has collected 83,000 ...

The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1 ... on a call with reporters. The CDC does not believe it has been missing bird flu infections ...