Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging health care workers to accelerate bird flu testing for patients hospitalized with flu symptoms, as the H5N1 avian influenza outbreak continues to grow in the United States and Canada....
Most of the other bird-to-human cases have occurred in workers at major poultry farms; "this is the first case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. that has been linked to exposure to a backyard flock," the CDC noted. The agency also stressed that an eventual c...
The advisory is intended to prevent delays in identifying human infections with avian influenza A (H5N1) viruses amid high levels of seasonal influenza. The risk to the general public from bird flu is low, and there has been no further evidence of person to person spread, the agency said. I...
Thirteen people working on California dairy farms have been infected with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus, or H5N1 bird flu, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced in mid-October. No person-to-person spread has been detected in the ongoing outbreak, which has ...
Cohen said the human who contracted avian flu, discovered last week in Texas, works with dairy cows. They "had mild symptoms; they're doing well and recovering," she added. Cohen went on to say that the CDC and the U.S. government were "taking this situation very seriously and closely...
Digitally-colorized transmission electron microscopic image of Avian Influenza A H5N1 virus particles (seen in gold).Cynthia Goldsmith/CDC Testing of samples taken from a child in California thought to have contracted H5N1 bird flu after drinking raw milk turned up no evidence of influenza viruses, ...
Colorized transmission electron micrograph of Avian influenza A H5N1 viruses. Credit: Public Domain The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is investigating whether the U.S. stockpile of bird flu vaccines is still well matched to the virus after discovering recent mutations. ...
While it won’t protect you from H5N1 bird flu per se, immunization could play a pivotal part in warding off a bird flu pandemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The current avian influenza outbreak led to the infection of 66 people in 10 states in ...
CDC officials said there is still a low risk of contracting H5N1 bird flu and a moderate pandemic risk stemming from the current age of the virus. There are different types of influenza, and H5N1 avian influenza is caused by a kind of influenza A virus, which is a category of flu that ...
So far, there have been 70 confirmed cases of the highly pathogenic avian influenza in the US since it was first detected in cows last year.There is no evidence of human-to-human transmission at this point. The majority of cases have been among people who have close contact with animals.P...