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 ...
As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...
This testing tells doctors specifically what subtype of flu – such as H1N1 or H3N2 – a person has. The CDC is calling on doctors and hospitals to perform subtyping on all hospitalized patients ...
A San Francisco resident is the second child in the United States to contract the viral bird flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to SFGATE. A CDC spokesperson ...
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 ...
Meanwhile, the CDC is urging health care workers to accelerate testing for avian influenza A(H5N1) in patients hospitalized with flu symptoms. The health advisory, issued Jan. 16, recommends that ...
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 does not believe it has been missing bird flu infections in people, said Nirav Shah, the agency's principal deputy director, on a call with reporters. "The system is working as it should.
The CDC estimates that there have been at least 9.1 million illnesses, with 110,000 hospitalizations for adults. It’s also estimated that 4,700 people have died from flu this season. Five ...
As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced on ...