When does flu season end?: Influenza A continues to spread in United States
Does it feel like you know a lot of people fighting the flu virus this winter? The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said flu activity remains high and continues to increase around the ...
Avian Influenza FAQ: What You Need to Know About Bird Flu
What you need to know about bird flu. Public health experts are closely watching avian influenza, which has affected chickens ...
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CDC urges hospitals to fast-track bird flu testing
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 ...
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CDC urges doctors to speed subtyping of patients hospitalized with the flu to better track H5N1 infections
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect may have bird flu. Its alert to doctors and hospitals follows a few rare ...
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Bird Flu Raising Red Flags Among Health Officials, CDC Urges Faster Testing
The CDC issues an advisory recommending that hospitalized patients who have tested positive for influenza be tested for bird flu. Shares of vaccine-related stocks are on watch as previous bird flu ...
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CDC urges faster testing to find human bird flu cases
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday urged labs nationwide to determine within 24 hours of admission whether people hospitalized with the flu have seasonal influenza or are ...
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CDC calls for testing hospitalized flu patients to determine whether they have bird flu
The CDC last week said it would rebuild a bird flu vaccine stockpile for poultry. Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, which encompasses CDC, have repeatedly met with the ...
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US CDC recommends faster testing for bird flu in hospitalized patients
The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human cases of avian influenza A (H5N1 ... on a call with reporters. The CDC does not believe it has been missing bird flu infections ...
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CDC confirms positive bird flu result in San Francisco child
SAN FRANCISCO -- The CDC has confirmed the positive bird flu case in a child in San Francisco. City health officials first reported on a presumptive case in a child on Jan. 10 and continue to ...
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Amid H5N1, CDC Wants Faster Influenza A Subtyping for Hospitalized Cases
Opens in a new tab or window Share on LinkedIn. Opens in a new tab or window The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated ...
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As bird flu affects more people and animals, CDC urges faster testing
The CDC continues to say the risk from bird flu remains low for most people. With seasonal flu cases high across the nation, nearly all patients hospitalized with influenza probably have the ...
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How effective is the flu vaccine amid California ‘quad-demic’? Is it too late to get shots?
Only one flu strain — influenza A — is known to cause global epidemics of disease, the CDC said “Pandemics can happen when a different and new influenza A virus infects people and spreads ...