The CDC and MDH are advising health care providers to order further laboratory testing on positive influenza A specimens ...

The advisory reflects increasing concern about the widening outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza ... for results of influenza testing, the advisory said. Nirav Shah, the CDC’s principal deputy ...

Poultry can still be exhibited and sold in unaffected counties with biosecurity measures in place. The department may extend ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza ... said Dr.

“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 ... or bird flu, also known as H5N1, which is new to ...

As the flu spreads, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging hospitals to test patients hospitalized with influenza A for H5N1 (bird flu) as soon as ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms.

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 ...