A s the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in dairy cows enters its fourth month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is taking steps to ramp up the nation’s capacity to test for the virus in people.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday it has ended its emergency response for H5N1 bird flu, ...

CDC Calls for Wider Bird Flu Testing ... farmworkers in Michigan and Colorado showed that 7 percent of the workers appeared to have been infected with Type A H5N1 ... (blue). The CDC ...

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 outbreak ...

The new CDC study suggests that the virus has infected more humans than previously reported. As of this week, bird flu has been detected in 10,528 wild birds, roughly 105.2 million poultry and 443 ...

Health agencies had largely been looking for human cases of H5N1 among on farms by monitoring for symptoms, and only testing and treating workers who reported feeling sick. The new study suggests ...

Hologic has agreed with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to create analyte-specific reagents (ASRs) that could assist in identifying the H5N1 bird flu also referred to as ...

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 ...

Currently, H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) testing is provided only by governmental health departments. Here's what to know in the event of a human outbreak of bird flu.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an advisory Thursday urging health care workers treating patients hospitalized with the flu to perform an additional test for bird flu within ...

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 outbreak ...