The patient was infected after contact with domestic and wild birds, specifically a non-commercial backyard flock and wild ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an advisory recommending clinicians expedite subtyping of type ...

Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that hospitals speed up testing people who are ...

Bird flu has been detected in a Lincoln wastewater sample, but it isn't clear whether the virus came from animals, animal ...

The nation has recorded its first fatality from the H5N1 bird flu ... Monday that a patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with a severe bird flu case died. This, as well as the other ...

Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.

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

told Salon H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses are a type A influenza virus. "We do need subtype confirmation to make sure it's ‘H5,’ and sub-type testing is not widely accessible." ...

The man who hails from Louisiana was hospitalised with ... of H5N1 bird flu in the United States. Since 2021, H5N1, a subtype of bird flu, has been circulating among wild birds and poultry in ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...

TUESDAY, Jan. 21, 2025 (HealthDay News) -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is awarding the pharmaceutical company Moderna $590 million to continue developing a vaccine to ...

When she first went to the hospital she tested positive for influenza ... subtype. Further testing suggested she had a high viral load of a novel influenza A infection, which researchers eventually ...