San Francisco confirmed that a child in the city became the first case of H5N1. A panel of biotech leaders discussed what ...

The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated timeline, ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

Bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses, according to the CDC. The virus mostly spreads between birds and ...

Due to ongoing sporadic H5N1 avian flu infections and brisk levels of seasonal flu activity, the US Centers for Disease ...

A San Francisco child has made a presumptive recovery from H5N1 bird flu, with health officials stressing the low risk to the ...

CDC officials say they extended the guidance now because they are seeing more H5N1 patients whose illness they cannot track ...

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a new recommendation for hospitals to accelerate ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

If you are wondering what the different letters and numbers used to name influenza viruses mean, such as H1N1, H3N2, H5N1 ... virus, strain 05, discovered in Sydney, Australia in 1997, and a ...

Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare but mysterious bird flu cases in the US – including, most recently, a child in San Francisco confirmed to have had H5N1 influenza – that ...