The H5N1 virus has mutated meaning it has begun to adapt to infect humans better raising new questions about H5N1's pandemic ...

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

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

The CDC announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to ...

H5N1 first human death was reported in USA. Since then, health authorities have been monitoring and cases and shave sounded ...

CDC officials say medical professionals are seeing more patients whose illness cannot be traced back to an infected animal or ...

The US CDC confirmed another case of avian influenza A(H5N1), or bird flu, in California, bringing the nationwide total of cases to 67.

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

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

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

It also recommends asking about recent close contact with a symptomatic person with a possible or confirmed case of H5N1. Demetre Daskalakis, MD, MPH, director of CDC's National Center for ...