America's first human death from bird flu occurred in Louisiana, where an elderly resident succumbed to the H5N1 virus after exposure to infected backyard birds. The Louisiana Department of Health ...

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

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently confirmed the first death in the United States linked to H5N1 ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today released an advisory recommending clinicians expedite subtyping of type ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says hospitals treating people for the flu should test them for avian ...

Flu activity remains high in Louisiana. That’s the word from state health officials and detailed in the Respiratory Virus ...

According to the Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), whooping ...

A Louisiana patient has become the first to die of bird flu in the US. According to AP News, state health officials announced ...

The CDC is calling for expanded testing of bird flu after a child in California tested positive for the virus despite no ...

Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky and New Hampshire, according to the CDC. The CDC calculates its activity levels (minimal, low, moderate, high, very high) with a baseline of the ...

Learn about the CDC's new measures for clinicians, including prompt testing for bird flu and antiviral treatment, to respond to the outbreak.

The agency says labs should accelerate testing on patients hospitalized with the flu within 24 hours of their admission.