The Louisiana patient who contracted what officials said was the nation’s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, ...

The case involved the D1.1 strain of H5N1, the same subtype that caused the severe condition of a 13-year-old girl in Canada late last year. Genetic sequencing of the Louisiana patient’s virus ...

A patient in Louisiana who had been hospitalized with the first human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI ... The CDC analyzed samples of the H5N1 virus that were collected from ...

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

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

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

The CDC announced on Thursday its recommendation to test hospitalized influenza A patients more quickly and thoroughly to ...

The findings come at a time when outbreaks of bird flu -- a different subtype of the same ... of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 influenza virus currently circulating ...

The Louisiana patient who ... s first “severe” case of avian influenza has died, the state health department said Monday. The person who contracted the H5N1 strain of highly pathogenic bird ...