epithelial cells (seen in green). (Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC) January 17, 2025 at 5:25 pm EST ATLANTA, GA — The CDC is calling for quicker tests for bird flu in humans. The agency is issuing new ...

A case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1), commonly known as bird flu, has been confirmed in a wild goose found in ...

Bird flu can present in humans with a wide range of symptoms, from mild or no symptoms at all to more severe. According to the CDC, most human cases have resulted in mild symptoms. These can ...

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.

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 ...

“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, told reporters Thursday morning. Both bird flu and most ...

The CDC continues to say the risk from bird flu remains low for most people. With seasonal flu cases high across the nation, nearly all patients hospitalized with influenza probably have the ...

The CDC data reveals that California has been the worst affected by the ongoing bird flu outbreak with 38 of the total cases reported. The recent case reported involves a child from San Francisco ...

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).