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NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. winter virus season is in full force, and by one measure is the most intense in 15 years.

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 ...

As cases of H5N1, also known as avian flu or bird flu, continue to surface across the U.S., safety precautions are ramping up. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced ...

“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, told reporters Thursday morning. Both bird flu and most ...

This testing tells doctors specifically what subtype of flu – such as H1N1 or H3N2 – a person has. The CDC is calling on doctors and hospitals to perform subtyping on all hospitalized patients ...

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 ...

As news broke of the death of Taiwanese actress and singer Barbie Hsu (徐熙媛), also known as Big S (大S), from severe flu complications, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and doctors yesterday urged ...

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 ...

A San Francisco resident is the second child in the United States to contract the viral bird flu, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed to SFGATE. A CDC spokesperson ...

Public health officials have also confirmed an increasing number of bird flu infections in domestic cats linked to raw pet food or raw milk exposure. Who's most at risk? The CDC continues to ...

The CDC does not believe it has been missing bird flu infections in people, said Nirav Shah, the agency's principal deputy director, on a call with reporters. "The system is working as it should.