What Is the ‘Quad-demic’ — and Is It Coming for You?
Care for the flu is generally supportive — meaning rest, hydration, and over-the-counter medication, but as the Mayo Clinic ...
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The Elusive Goal of Nationwide Disease Prediction
Disease threats do not yet have the color-coded, real-time tracking maps the National ... and the CDC, as well as states that vary widely in the ways they test animals, people, and bulk milk tanks.
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CDC urges hospitals to fast-track bird flu testing
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 ...
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CDC wants more, faster testing for bird flu as outbreak grows
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 stress ...
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Bird flu or seasonal sickness? Here's how the CDC plans to ramp up testing
“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 ...
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As bird flu spreads, CDC recommends faster 'subtyping' to catch more cases
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 ...
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CDC wants more, faster testing for bird flu as outbreak grows
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 ...
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CDC confirms bird flu case in San Francisco child. What is bird flu?
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 ...
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As bird flu affects more people and animals, CDC urges faster testing
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 ...
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As bird flu spreads, CDC recommends faster 'subtyping' to catch more cases
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 on ...
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CDC calls for testing hospitalized flu patients to determine whether they have bird flu
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.
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CDC urges faster testing as bird flu affects more people, animals
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 ...