"The Chinese poultry lineage may have experienced more vaccine-driven selection compared to other lineages," the researchers ...

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

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

No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

The nation has recorded its first fatality from the H5N1 bird flu ... Monday that a patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with a severe bird flu case died. This, as well as the other ...

Bird flu has been detected in a Lincoln wastewater sample, but it isn't clear whether the virus came from animals, animal ...

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

told Salon H5N1 and other avian influenza viruses are a type A influenza virus. "We do need subtype confirmation to make sure it's ‘H5,’ and sub-type testing is not widely accessible." ...

Moderna has been awarded approximately $590 million from the federal government to help speed up the development of an ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is asking that people with flu severe enough to require hospitalization ...

As cases of H5N1 ... during the flu season due to high patient volumes, according to the CDC. Health care systems are expected to use tests that identify seasonal influenza A as a subtype ...

When she first went to the hospital she tested positive for influenza ... subtype. Further testing suggested she had a high viral load of a novel influenza A infection, which researchers eventually ...