Two state health departments have issued new guidance on testing for the bird flu, following a CDC advisory, even as it says ...

Guam Memorial Hospital Administrator Lilian Perez-Posadas said there are no suspected cases of norovirus or H5N1 infections on ... and they do a test and find out you have influenza A, it ...

The Village of Walden will host a huge election this March, featuring a two-year term for the mayor, a four-year term for a ...

The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) has issued a new health advisory, guiding providers to test for avian influenza ... concerns that the non-seasonal H5N1 bird flu, which is a type of ...

The spread of H5N1 into new species alarms researchers who say it could reassort in a new species, like pigs, leading to more severe human infection.

Bill Mullan, spokesperson for Oakland County Executive Dave Coulter, said the test for the symptomatic individual came back negative for H5N1 and none of the monitored individuals had developed ...

The Centers for Disease Control announced the first human death from H5N1 avian flu or "bird flu" in the United States on Jan. 6 - and the illness continues to spread. In a Jan. 6 news release ...

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...

When three chickens at the farm at Hess-Hathaway Park in Waterford Township died last week and three others appeared to be sick, workers acted quickly to determine whether the culprit could be the ...

In B.C., Canada's first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 involved a teenage girl who became critically ill in November, and was only released from hospital on Jan. 7. The cause of her ...

Additionally, an April order by the USDA requires dairy cattle to test negative for H5N1 prior to transportation to a new state. But plenty of within-state movement is still happening, says ...

Subtyping can help avoid delays in identifying H5N1 infections, which are more likely when seasonal flu activity is high, as it is now, according to the HAN. A test that is positive for influenza ...