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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO ... 19, influenza, and RSV based on symptoms and tested positive for influenza A. As part of SFDPH enhanced surveillance, the specimen was subsequently tested for H5N1." ...

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

Health officials in San Francisco ... for COVID-19, influenza and RSV based on symptoms and had tested positive for influenza A. The child's specimen was then tested for H5N1, which was positive.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Public health officials say a San Francisco child has presumptively tested positive for H5N1 bird ... for COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus.

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

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 ...