The progression of the species-jumping disease has been unprecedented, including the first-ever U.S. cases of infections in ...

The California duck farm's strain of H5N9 is different from those earlier cases because this time it is closely related to a ...

H5N1 FILE PHOTO: H5N1 or bird flu ... microscopic image. H5N1 virus particles (seen in gold), grown in Madin-Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) epithelial cells (seen in green). (Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC ...

a novel version of influenza A like H5N1,” CDC Principal Deputy Director Dr. Nirav Shah said. Although there is no human-to-human transmission of bird flu in the US and the risk to the general ...

The action comes amid increasing numbers of H5N1 infections in humans – and the first fatality from bird flu in the US earlier this month – although, the CDC has stressed that it still thinks ...

The H5N1 bird flu situation in the US seems more fraught ... or cows that would raise the risk to human health," the CDC said. In its own announcement of the death, the Louisiana health department ...

On Monday, Louisiana health officials announced that a person hospitalized last month with a severe case of avian influenza — ...

“What we need is to shift to a system that tells us what’s happening in the moment,” Nirav Shah, principal deputy director at CDC ... or bird flu, also known as H5N1, which is new to ...

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 ...

Opens in a new tab or window The CDC is ... for H5N1, Shah said. This is the second confirmed infection in a child to date, and the fourth case of H5 picked up by national flu surveillance ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The CDC provided a statement Monday evening regarding the first bird flu death that occurred early in the day in Louisiana. A(H5N1) illness, also known as H5N1 bird flu ...