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

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, ...

A California duck farm made headlines this week after the World Organization of Animal Health published a report by U.S.

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

CDC officials confirmed earlier this week that a second San Francisco ... to test for the H5N1 bird flu subtypes are urged to ...

A new strain of H5N9 bird flu was detected at a commercial duck operation in California's Merced County. All the ducks were ...

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

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

A new strain of a highly pathogenic and rare strain of bird flu has been reported on a duck farm in central California.

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 ...