The CDC is now calling for subtyping of influenza A viruses in all hospitalized patients -- and on an accelerated timeline, ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging hospitals to accelerate advanced testing of people they suspect ...

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

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

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

Seasonal influenza vaccines triggered protective immune responses against the H5N1 avian influenza virus primarily in younger ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At ...

A case of the bird flu (also known avian flu or H5N1) involving gamebirds has been confirmed in Spartanburg. The virus was ...

With cases of avian influenza A(H5N1) continuing to rise among cattle and humans in the US, scientists and government health officials are preparing for the potential of the virus adapting to ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the ... diagnosed with influenza, a recent study reports an ... Single Mutation in H5N1 Influenza Surface ...

Subtyping can help avoid delays in identifying H5N1 infections ... A test that is positive for influenza A but negative for seasonal flu subtypes H1 and H3 would indicate the presence of the ...

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." ...