Yet another new strain of bird flu was confirmed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) last week in milk samples collected from dairy cows in ...

The more accurate flu tests—reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), viral culture, and immunofluorescence assays—require a health care provider to swipe the back of your ...

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No person-to-person spread has been detected, but that doesn’t mean an H5N1 avian influenza pandemic isn’t possible or even ...

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains, bird flu is a disease caused by the influenza A virus. At the same time, recent CDC data shows that seasonal influenza A is rising ...

and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Over the past several months, bird-flu numbers have been steadily ticking up, especially among farmworkers who interact closely with cows.